Alaska Power & Telephone (AP&T) is one step closer to replacing the damaged power and fiber optic cable connecting its Kasidaya hydropower plant, and by extension Haines, to Skagway. At a May 6 meeting, the Skagway Borough Assembly approved an easement allowing AP&T to run a new cable through Smuggler’s Cove.
The cable is vital for power resource sharing between Haines and Skagway.
“There is a power cable that runs from Skagway to the remote…
