Hawaii Day

Hawaii Day @ the library

Friday, January 25^th

4 – 6 pm

Come Celebrate the library’s 10^th Anniversary!!

See what our neighbors are doing ! !

 We are in the early stages of looking into whether a small biomass plant for the Haines Junction area would be feasible. There are many questions that we don’t have answers to you. Here is a link to a householder that we sent to people in the Haines Junction area.

http://yukonenergy.ca/downloads/db/1226_BiomassWoodIntoElectricity.pdf

Janet Patterson
Manager, Communications
Yukon Energy Corporation

            (867) 393-5333      

We are glad to announce, earlier today Haines Port Development Council LLC. was organized. We are in the management business, to manage business and property involved in the development of the Haines Port.

We look forward to working with private businesses and government agencies. We want to be a positive force in the economic development of Haines and the region.

Her mother, Georgiana Hotch, will hold a service in Haines, in May, to enter her ashes into rest. More information to follow at that time.

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Melissa M. Kookesh

Assistant to the President

Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska

320 W. Willoughby Avenue, Suite 300

Juneau, Alaska 99801

(800) 344-1432 ext. 7103 // (907) 463-7103

Fax: (907) 586-8970

mkookesh@ccthita.org // www.ccthita.org

"Sh yáa.awudanéiyi a kwáan," he said in Tlingit "Respect People. Respect yourself, too, and other people will respect you."

Dr. Walter Soboleff

Looking forward

With the several larger Yukon mines listed below where will all that mineral ore go? We can sit back and wait to see what happens and be on the loosing end. Or we can be responsible people and work with all those involved to make an; orderly, environmentally safe, profitable, long term transportation and port facility. 

  As to transportation; When Bruce Carr, Director

, Strategic Planning Alaska Railroad Carrb@akrr.com was here he pointed out “you don’t have a port till you have a railroad”. That is very true as to move that much ore responsibly you need to move it by rail. Bruce also said “when rail comes to Haines not if rail comes to Haines”. That being the case we ALL need to help get Alaska Railroad to come to Haines.

  As to handling mineral ore we need a proper Ore Terminal at the Port. To give you a little idea of what size ore terminal; Wellgreen mine’s Neil Frock says; “The rough number for a building which would meet our needs is ~ 4,000 m2 (a little smaller than an NFL football field) of floor area for concentrate storage.

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Casino mine’s Jesse Duke says; “the project will ship an average of 407,000 tonnes of concentrate per year. While its complicated and I would have to review the details to confirm, I would expect that storage space of somewhere between 15,000 and to 30,000 tonnes at least would be required, plus loading facilities“.

At this point none of the mines have commited to come to Haines as we do not have any infrastructure. To that end Wellgreen’s Ron Monk says, “

The decision on the port will be made by Prophecy. The proposed Wellgreen Mine is in the pre-feasibility phase so a decision to proceed and what port to use is a while off. If Haines had adequate terminal, storage, dock, shiploader and upgraded highway bridge then Haines has a distance advantage over Skagway.”

As you can see this is a very large project that must be done in a responsible manner. Any real shipping is at least several years away. If we want to have a long term, good, clean, environmentally safe, over all small footprint economy we need to get busy now.

Bill Kurz

Check out Copper North mining Corp; http://www.coppernorthmining.com/s/Home.asp , Check out Chieftain Metals Inc. ; http://www.chieftainmetals.com/ , check out the Wellgreen Project; http://prophecyplat.com/project_wellgreen.php , Check out Capstone Mining Corp.'s Minto Mine; http://capstonemining.com/s/Minto.asp?ReportID=343888 , Check out the Selwyn Mine News; http://www.selwynresources.com/en/news_index.cfm , Check out The Casino Mine Latest Feasibility Study; http://www.westerncopperandgold.com/s/news.asp?ReportID=564587

Violence;

When a society teaches violence on TV, video games, and movies what can it expect of it’s people?

Think about it, the most popular TV programs are violence oriented. The most popular video games are violent. The most popular movies are violent.

Adults we hope can tell the difference between right and wrong. I did say “hope”, we know some fall through the cracks.

Children get this violence taught to them early on so what can we expect as a result?

Check the records you will find people have been violent toward each other much longer than there have been guns. The most dangerous weapon on earth is people.

Let’s all work together and return to good values without violence.

Haines Port Development Council

Our marketing / advertising of Haines Port is bringing people and companies with many different interests. We want to keep an open mind to any proposal that is environmentally safe and does not overly disrupt the community.

We recognize any development will not make everyone happy. Development is bound to disrupt some. We also recognize Haines is big enough to embrace most interests. We are not looking for government funding, taxes or grants. Mostly we look to private enterprise. There may be opportunity for government investment ( AIDEA ).

Our effort is to create a sound economy with good paying lifetime jobs. We look for Haines to be a good, clean, healthy place for people to visit, live, raise families, and retire.

Bill Kurz

Haines Port Development Council Board Member