Before our local government commits our community to jumping into bed with the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) to build a new dock and ore terminal on Lutak Inlet, there are many questions to be answered and public involvement that must take place.
AIDEA has an ore terminal that it owns in Skagway, just 15 miles away. With the boom and bust of the mining industry, it has been used sporadically over the…