Denial of Alaska Ballot Question to Protect Salmon Habitat Appealed to Superior Court
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Alaska Journal of Commerce] Elwood Brehmer, Alaska Journal of Commerce, Anchorage - October 6, 2017
Is there discretion in the term "significant adverse effects?"
That is the question at the center of the court debate over a ballot initiative aimed at reforming Alaska's permitting laws to better protect salmon habitat from large development projects.
The Department of Law doesn't think so, and Assistant Attorney General Elizabeth Bakalar stressed as much during about 90 minutes of oral arguments Oct. 3 in Anchorage for Stand for Salmon's appeal of Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott's rejection of the initiative, which was based on a Department of Law ...
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