HAINES–Twilight settles in with a deeper cold and wraps the valley in a brittle stillness. The berserker wind of just yesterday now offers only intermittent gasps, residual breaths too feeble to gutter a candle flame. The chimes suspended from the cabin eaves stir languidly but remain silent, their wild music spent, the discord of notes vanished with the bitter maelstrom. Read more->
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A $4.5 million investment of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds will allow GSA to replace the outdated, inefficient boiler which has been has served the building since it was constructed in 1951. The old boiler has reached the end of its useful life and GSA will install a new sustainable biomass boiler. Read more in Ketchikan’s SitNews.  Students from the Tok School holding up wood chips that are used to fire the boiler. by Jeffrey Hermanns, Forester Alaska winter months are cold, but the children going to school in Tok are warmed by the very trees that have been removed to protect them, and wiser about the immense northern boreal forest surrounding the community. On October 29, 2010, the woodchip-fired boiler at the Tok School was lit for the first time. Read more->  Leonard Dubber in Moose Horn Laundry Uncategorized by Stephanie Scott
The Commission will suggest that the Mayor fill the vacancy created by Commissioner Hedden’s Jan. 13 resignation by designating Pete Lapham the Planning Commission representative to the Commission and by appointing a school district representative to fill the vacant seat. Uncategorized Uncategorized A Draft copy of the Haines Borough Wood Heat Feasibility Study is now available for public review and comment. The report was published by CE2 Engineering from Anchorage as part of an energy grant awarded by the Borough to consider the feasibility and design of a centralized wood biomass heating facility for some of the Borough buildings, including the school.  Pete Lapham shows off his new wood pellet boiler As a former logger, current chain saw shop owner, and new member of the Energy and Sustainability Commission, Pete Lapham has always been interested in wood as a source of energy. But now he and wife Diana have taken wood heat energy to new levels. Read more-> Uncategorized The Haines Energy and Sustainability Commission kicked off its second year on Wednesday, December 9th with an afternoon meeting in the Assembly chambers. The Commission’s term was recently extended another year by the Borough Assembly. Read more-> Part II in a series about wood heat in Haines  Smoke from burning brush piles and a cruise ship visible over Haines on a late August rainy day. Connelly Lake hydropower could eliminate the need for cruise ships to power up and biomass heat could eliminate the brush pile burning. The long term outlook for renewable energy in the Haines Borough is bright indeed! There are projects for the future that could make Haines the envy of the country when the goal is to reduce dependence on fossil fuel. But many of these projects are in the distant future and it is the immediate interim period where woody biomass can play an active role. Read more-> Part I in a series about wood heat in Haines
On December 8th, the Borough Assembly will review a conceptual design from CE2 Engineering for biomass (wood) heating of selected Borough buildings. CE2 is working under an energy grant awarded by the Haines Borough earlier in the year. Although the report is forthcoming, preliminary discussions with CE2 indicate a displacement of almost 40,000 gallons of diesel fuel is possible by going with a wood chip or other woody biomass heating system. Read more-> |
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KETCHIKAN–The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) on December 21, announced a contract award to install a biomass boiler system in the Ketchikan, Alaska federal building.
Elimination of 38,000 gallons of fuel oil to heat Borough buildings! That idea should get our attention!
