The Pebble Blog : More Palin and Pebble

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The gigantic Pebble copper and gold prospect in Southwest Alaska is one of the touchiest topics in Alaska today.

In this blog, I'll track news that is significant or interesting about the Pebble project. I'll also try to generate discussion and information sharing about some of the claims and counterclaims about the project, and mining in general.

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About Elizabeth Bluemink ebluemink@adn.com

I've been writing about mining in Alaska since 2004 and without a doubt, it is one of the most interesting topics that I cover at the Daily News. I've been a newspaper reporter for the past 10 years. In the Deep South, I specialized in reporting about environmental conflicts and pollution cleanups. For two years, I covered commercial fishing, mining and logging in Southeast Alaska. In my current job as a Daily News business reporter, I write about mining, tourism, Native corporations and other businesses.

More Palin and Pebble

Posted by Elizabeth Bluemink

Posted: October 22, 2008 - 4:53 pm

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The Associated Press has a story today about the Alaskans for Clean Water (the pro-Measure 4 group) filing suit to force the state of Alaska to turn over Measure 4-related records from the Palin administration now instead of after the Nov. 4 election.

The article points out that a number of organizations have pulled their requests for those documents.

Full disclosure: I was one of the requestors but the Daily News is no longer pursuing the records. The state informed us that it would cost at least $1,700, not including the cost of additional staff time and copying charges for documents they planned to search for in the coming weeks.

For anyone who is remotely interested, I'm attaching below the cost estimate that the state provided us and Attorney General Talis Colberg's request for a time extension to retreive the remainder of the documents.

By the way, I've gathered records from other states in the past and this by far was the most expensive.

Here's the AP article, which provides additional detail and makes the bolder-than-usual claim that Palin tried to nix Measure 4.

Pebble Blog is curious whether the AP has retrieved documents that indicate Palin worked against Measure 4 in ways other than saying, in response to a press conference question, that she'd vote "no" on it.