The Haines Borough Assembly this week got a smoking hot deal on three biomass boilers, authorizing purchase of the equipment valued at $450,000 for only $60,000 from the U.S. Coast Guard in Sitka.
The catch is one of the boilers exploded when it was installed in the Coast Guard’s AIRSTA Hangar in 2012. Manufacturer Unilux has since refurbished and reprogrammed the boiler, said Darsie Culbeck, who has been handling the borough’s $1.2 million biomass grant…