Alaska Power and Telephone (AP&T) has known that the hydropower cable that connects Haines and Skagway to the Kasidaya hydropower project has been vulnerable to damage for years, predicting the faults that the cable would develop with great accuracy. Still, no steps were taken to provide maintenance.
An average household in Haines or Skagway pays between $200 and $250 a month for power, according to AP&T power operations manager Darren Belisle
“They charge us a…
