Gillam, anti-Pebble groups deny illegally funding ballot fight in Alaska
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Anchorage Daily News: In late March, the two companies trying to develop the proposed copper and gold mine and the Resource Development Council, an Anchorage business group, filed a complaint with election regulators accusing the financier, Bob Gillam, and the advocacy groups of illegally hiding nearly $2 million of donations from Gillam to the anti-Pebble campaign. Legal responses by Gillam, the Renewable Resources Coalition, Alaskans for Clean Water and Americans for Job Security, say the money he provided to them during last year's multimillion-dollar fight over Ballot Measure 4, the "Clean Water" initiative, did not break any laws. Most of the allegations lack legal foundation, deliberately misrepresent facts or lack evidence to back them up, Gillam and two of the groups said in their filing to the Alaska Public Offices Commission. "The fact that Pebble has nonetheless filed such allegations ... is a reflection of its true motive to smear (its opponents)," the filing said. Measure 4, rejected by voters in August, was an attempt by Pebble opponents to require stricter limits on water-pollution discharges from large mines. If developed, Pebble would be the largest mine in Alaska and one of the largest copper-gold mines in the world.
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