Conflict of interest on heliski committee?

By John Stang

Five people are on a Haines Borough committee to recommend whether to approve two companies’ requests to expand their heliskiing zones.

But two of those five committee members are partial owners of the same two heliskiing companies that made the requests. They are Scott Sundberg, co-owner of SEABA, and Sean Brownell, co-owner of Alaska Heliskiing.

The committee’s purpose is to review the requests by Alaska Heliskiing and SEABA to expand their…