Juneau’s push to expand renewable power could boost the region’s mines — or cost them Amid proposals to electrify Juneau’s cruise docks and build a new hydroelectric plant, one of the area’s major mines has a lot to gain. The other has more to lose.
Dozens of fish died near a Southeast Alaska gold mine. Two months later, state regulators haven’t determined what killed them. State fish scientists say the circumstances of the fish kill suggest that it stems from a water quality problem. But regulators say they're still waiting from data from the Kensington gold mine's operator.
