On March 24, I tuned into a Ports and Harbors Committee meeting, expecting an ordinary update on the Lutak Dock rebuild, according to the agenda. Instead, the committee chair turned the meeting over to a Yukon mining industry group that the Haines Chamber of Commerce had apparently invited to tell us what to do with Lutak Dock to serve their needs, without public notice. Who is running the show here?

Yukon mining interests are asking…