Chiefs vs. Broncos North Korea vows to fight • Denver seeks 1st win over K.C. US sanctions in 4 years, See page 6 Page 12 49 º/43º Weather, page 3 $K1.00 ETCHIKAN THURSDAY, OCT. 17, 2019 T WDITTER.COAM/KDNI NEWLS Y Ketchikan N W DailyWW News.KEE T- 10/17/2019CHIWKANDAICopyLYNS ReducedEWS.C OtoM 91% from original 12 to P fitA GletterES page City to consider Flood Warning property purchase AMHS Auction for old fire house set for Oct. 24 returns By SAM ALLEN Daily News Staff Writer At Thursday night’s Ketchikan City Council meeting, the council will look at purchasing the former Bar Harbor Restaurant property for $395,000, allowing for more parking and better water access. to P.R. The city has kicked around a proposed $2.3 million demolition and parking project at the property near Bar Harbor since last year. The project would in - crease the number of parking spaces from 30 to 57. The cost would be shared between the city's Public Works and Ports and Harbors departments if the coun - 2 trips scheduled cil endorses the project, according to a memo from Port and Harbors Director Steve Corporon to City Manager Karl Amylon. By SCOTT BOWLEN The council was split on the idea at its June 20 meeting because of costs and Daily News Staff Writer other more important projects. Citing the need for more information, the coun - The Alaska Marine Highway System is cil requested cost estimates for demolition, and assessment of environmental making a brief return to Prince Rupert, hazards at the site. British Columbia, with two roundtrips set According to a city memo from Public Works Director Mark Hilson, an as - for departure from Ketchikan on Oct. 25 sessment of the value of the property and an environmental survey would each and Nov. 28. be $6,000. Demolition and disposal of the house, not including hazardous ma - The sailings appeared on the AMHS on - terial care, is estimated at $50,000 — compared to a nearly $130,000 estimate line schedule on Tuesday, followed by a provided to the council in June. formal announcement by the Alaska De - The council is expected to direct city staff on how to move forward. partment of Transportation on Wednes - At the council meeting in June, Mayor Bob Sivertsen said the property’s pur - day morning. chase would not require development of the lot in the near future in any par - AMHS’ original fall-winter-spring ticular direction. Sivertsen said if the city misses this sale it would lose out on schedule had no service to Prince Rupert the opportunity to utilize a harbor-adjacent property, whether it be for more between Oct. 1 and April 30. A state ferry See ‘City Council,’ page 3 schedule for May 1 and beyond has yet to be announced. Although the return to Prince Rupert service is brief, it was good news to Rep. AK mulls changes Dan Ortiz, I-Ketchikan. “I'm gratified that we have a short-term solution, and I'm thankful that the ad - ministration has chosen to accept that short-term solution,” Ortiz said Wednes - to oil spill plan day afternoon. “And I just see this as the first step in the long-term goal of restoring By BECKY BOHRER He also said he has heard from those permanent access, or foreseeable access, Associated Press who think the rules don't go far to Prince Rupert ... in the years ahead.” JUNEAU — Thirty years after the enough. The department is taking pub - Ortiz had traveled to Prince Rupert to Exxon Valdez oil spill, the state of lic comment as it considers whether to meet with Prince Rupert Mayor Lee Brain Alaska is looking at whether to change propose changes. and other officials after AMHS an - its requirements for oil spill prevention Oil tankers, drill rigs and oil pipelines nounced on Sept. 4 that AMHS service to and response plans. are among those required to have spill that British Columbia port about 90 miles Some say Gov. Mike Dunleavy's ad - prevention and response plans, accord - from Ketchikan would end by Oct. 1. ministration has failed to adequately ex - ing to the department's website. The central issue was a U.S. Customs plain the need for any changes and fear Dunleavy, a Republican, has adopted and Border Patrol requirement for an the process could lead to a watering an "open for business" mantra. Bob armed Canadian law enforcement pres - down of environmental regulations. Shavelson with the advocacy group ence at the AMHS terminal in Prince Ru - State Environmental Conservation Cook Inletkeeper said he sees that as pert. CBP personnel are not permitted to Commissioner Jason Brune said there's code for rollbacks. be armed in Canada, and AMHS was un - no intent to do away with the plans. He "Whenever that phrase is used across able to reach a solution with Canadian of - said the department wants to make sure the country, coming from the Dunleavy ficials to provide a local law enforcement the rules are not outdated. administration, 'open for business' presence at the Prince Rupert terminal Brune said he has heard from many means we're going to relax rules that for the protection of CBP officers that in - Alaskans that contingency plans "are are intended to protect consumers and spect passengers and vehicles prior to unnecessarily burdensome while lack - the environment," Shavelson said. ferry travel to Alaska. ing corresponding environmental ben - Brune said the mantra to him means Wednesday’s announcement by DOT efits." "maintaining protection of the environ - doesn’t describe the agreement that re - He did not specify the source of the ment while eliminating unnecessary or sulted in the two upcoming sailings. complaints but said there have been burdensome requirements. It definitely It said only that, “With approval from comments from industry and individu - does not mean lessening environmental Heavy rains cause flooding on Tuesday at Ward Lake. More than 8.75 inches of precipitation U.S. Customs and Border Protection and als outside of industry that the docu - protections. Alaskans take pride in had been recorded at Ketchikan International Airport between around 10 a.m. on Monday law enforcement support from the City ments have gotten too big and "things making sure that our environment is and 4 p.m. on Wednesday. The National Weather Service has extended its flood warning for of Prince Rupert, the Alaska Marine just continue to get added and added protected." the Ward Lake Trail through 10 a.m. on Friday. Staff photo by Dustin Safranek See ‘AMHS,’ page 2 and added." See ‘Oil spill plan,’ page 3 Copyright (c)2019 Ketchikan Daily News, Edition 10/17/2019 Former Pompeo aide testifies A fortunOctobere l17,i 2019e s9:33 ami n(GMT +8:00)C anada's oil sands Powered by TECNAVIA partment officials are speaking out Senate talks impeachment trial under subpoena — some revealing cancellation, taking flak from the en - striking new details — about the ac - Many voters want to leave it there vironmental camp in the process. WASHINGTON (AP) — The swift- his resignation, while the Senate GOP tions Trump, and his personal lawyer But critics including his main chal - moving impeachment probe pushed leader briefed colleagues on a possi - Rudy Giuliani, took toward Ukraine By KEVIN ORLAND "I'm terrified for our future," he said. lenger, Conservative leader Andrew onward Wednesday as a former top ble Christmas impeachment trial. that have sparked the House impeach - and NATALIE OBIKO In a campaign that's been unchar - Scheer, hammer him for abandoning State Department aide testified that The day's events, interrupted by an ment inquiry. PEARSON acteristically personal in tone for a pipeline through British Columbia, the Trump administration's politiciza - explosive meeting at the White On Wednesday, Michael McKinley, Bloomberg Canada, energy and the environ - failing to push through another line tion of foreign policy contributed to House, churned as longtime State De - See ‘Impeachment,’ page 3 At the Fish Place diner in Fort Mc - ment is arguably the key policy area to Canada's east coast and passing a Murray, booths are filled with oil that will decide the election-and law that they say will make major workers in baseball caps and the most agree the outcome of the vote energy projects impossible to ap - parking lot is lined with pickup will in turn be crucial for Canada's prove. Trudeau's comment at a town Iditarod CEO to meet with PETA trucks sporting six-foot (1.8 meter) energy sector. hall meeting in Ontario back in 2017 neon safety flags, a hallmark of the Not only will it determine the fu - that the country needs to phase out By RACHEL D'ORO mining industry. ture of carbon taxes, pipeline ap - the oil sands has added to the sense Associated Press Fort McMurray is the regional hub provals and environmental that it's not just specific policies but ANCHORAGE— The new head of Alaska's Iditarod for the oil sands that produce two- regulations, it's also a referendum on the industry's very existence that's plans to meet with a leader of an animal welfare group thirds of Canada's crude, a status a dispute central to the country's on the ballot. that's devoted to ending the world's most famous sled dog that puts the city carved out of Al - identity: Is Canada a global oil super - "Do we want our energy industry race, which it sees as a cruel, deadly event for its canine berta's wilderness at the heart of the power or is it a leader in fighting cli - to be a global player, or do we want participants.