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Southeast electrical ties moving forward

Alaska energy authority staffers got their marching orders last week for a proposed system of electrical transmission lines connecting the communities of southeast Alaska. A working group formed to study the possibility for an electrical connection between the region and British Columbia directed the state to continue looking at that project…but placed a higher priority on a connection between Petersburg and Kake.Joe Viechnicki, KFSK - Petersburg