In the wake of an unresolved problem with wood pellet boilers in Haines, the Alaska Energy Authority has indefinitely extended a deadline for spending $1.2 million to put pellet-burners in Haines Borough facilities.
Engineer Jams Vail, energy infrastructure project manager for AEA, said on April 30 that the grant completion date “is not set in stone.” The money was to have been spent by June 30, 2016.
Instead, the agency looks at a project’s progress,…
