November 20, 2018 — The proposed Pebble Mine in Southwest Alaska has been back in the news after this month’s elections, and now it’s also back in Alaskans’ mailboxes.
The Pebble Limited Partnership, the company behind the project, has launched a new marketing campaign following Alaska voters’ defeat of salmon-habitat preservation initiative Ballot Measure 1 and Republican Mike Dunleavy’s victory in the race for governor.
As a candidate, Dunleavy said he’s in favor of allowing the proposed mega-mine to work through the federal permitting process. Ballot Measure 1, the “Stand for Salmon” initiative, was largely seen as an anti-development initiative by the resource development industry.
“We’re very encouraged by the election of the governor-elect and of the results from the ballot measure campaign, really as a validation that Alaska has process, a fair process for reviewing projects,” Mike Heatwole, a spokesperson for the partnership, said Monday.