A number of Haines residents recently organized as the ad hoc group Safe Haines Highways (SHH). SHH commissioned LNE Engineering and Policy in Anchorage to research and analyze the likely impacts of the Haines Highway truck corridor becoming a haul road for ore concentrates from a small number of active and proposed mines in Alaska and the Yukon.

The report found that the round trip travel of 40-60 metric tonne trailer trucks carrying ore concentrates on the Haines Highway, passing through Haines to the Lutak Dock, and returning to their respective mines likely would have significant impacts on Haines residents’ quality of life.