Who Is Wally Lau?

[Guest]

HiloPuna, we always appreciate reading another one of your mayor's protection posts. I am hoping you won't mind reading my own opinionated post then too.



We have found it increasingly difficult out here in lower Geothermal county or "Leilani Estates" to trust this current mayor's administration. For example, During the month of Dec 2013, We read this article in the local paper regarding the geothermal relocation process possibly moving forward. Then shortly after the article, the county planning dept and possibly our mayor changed or modified the geothermal relocation program. One important change was made regarding the standard 130% buyout offer, making it currently 100% with NO negotiations. Possibly the Mayor and the county planning dept then orchestrated a clever County Buyout Scheme for the remaining 30 geothermal impacted homes or "families". Potentially saving the counties geothermal relocation or "political slush fund" $1.5 million dollars while again not really trying to relocate the many patient families who have continued to remain on this counties geothermal relocation list. jmo.

http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-ne...ng-forward


It does upset me to think that Our current mayor may have been purchasing $800 or $900 dollar Christmas special drinky-drinkies. Possibly Using a government P-card sometime during the month of December 2013 at an evergreen night club. Then the Clear headed mayor may have been flying home to Hilo to take part in some very important geothermal relocation changes that would eventually impact many families future relocation options. This Mayor's decision to expand the geothermal industries operations in our backyard did eventually change the way my family lived in puna. This same mayor may have also cost several families including mine the opportunity to relocate away from the geothermal industry because of his drinking or p-card spending habits just a term later. jmo.

P.S. Harry Kim will be getting our votes Again, not that it matters.

[HiloPuna]

Yes Gypsy, your speculations are definitely and uniquely your own! Woven with the gossamer logic and ethereal substance that are the fictive core of most of your positings.

And somewhere in Java a butterfly flutters its wings....batten down the Puna hatches !!!

[kalakoa]

Otherwise I'll have to assume that your use of quotation marks is to add the appearance of something that was said by another but is not truly the case, as if by doing that it would be more believable to the gullible. Which is why I write above that I haven't seen you provide a factual basis for your opinions and that you generally rely on assumptions, apparently to reaffirm your own worldview.

Yes, nitpicking pseudonymous forum posts is obviously more important than any action or actions that may or may not have been taken by elected officials during their expenditure of public funds. Thanks for pointing that out.

[kalakoa]

http://bigislandnow.com/2015/07/21/mayor...-training/

Hawai'i County Managing Director Wally Lau said Monday that a recent audit report by Hawai'i County Legislative Auditor Bonnie Nims, which found both the Hawai'i County Mayor's Office and the Hawai'i County Department of Liquor Control used their pCards for questionable transactions last year, has sparked his office to take action.

http://records.co.hawaii.hi.us/weblink/DocView.aspx?dbid=1&id=56360&cr=1

Lau reports directly to Kenoi; all other departments (including Liquor Control, Finance) report to Lau.

EIther Lau knew about the pCard abuse (and therefore cannot be trusted), or Lau had no idea what his suboordinates were doing (which raises questions of competency).

[opihikao]

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Originally posted by gypsy69

HiloPuna, we always appreciate reading another one of your mayor's protection posts. I am hoping you won't mind reading my own opinionated post then too.



We have found it increasingly difficult out here in lower Geothermal county or "Leilani Estates" to trust this current mayor's administration. For example, During the month of Dec 2013, We read this article in the local paper regarding the geothermal relocation process possibly moving forward. Then shortly after the article, the county planning dept and possibly our mayor changed or modified the geothermal relocation program. One important change was made regarding the standard 130% buyout offer, making it currently 100% with NO negotiations. Possibly the Mayor and the county planning dept then orchestrated a clever County Buyout Scheme for the remaining 30 geothermal impacted homes or "families". Potentially saving the counties geothermal relocation or "political slush fund" $1.5 million dollars while again not really trying to relocate the many patient families who have continued to remain on this counties geothermal relocation list. jmo.

http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-ne...ng-forward


It does upset me to think that Our current mayor may have been purchasing $800 or $900 dollar Christmas special drinky-drinkies. Possibly Using a government P-card sometime during the month of December 2013 at an evergreen night club. Then the Clear headed mayor may have been flying home to Hilo to take part in some very important geothermal relocation changes that would eventually impact many families future relocation options. This Mayor's decision to expand the geothermal industries operations in our backyard did eventually change the way my family lived in puna. This same mayor may have also cost several families including mine the opportunity to relocate away from the geothermal industry because of his drinking or p-card spending habits just a term later. jmo.

P.S. Harry Kim will be getting our votes Again, not that it matters.

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Aloha kakahiaka, Gypsy. How soon we forget who approved the PGV expansion to the current 60MW permit (Mayor Harry Kim). (*Snipped - More at link (BBM) - 2012 Race)

http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/sections...-race.html

Kim approved the last expansion at Puna Geothermal Venture and also organized the emergency response to the 1991 blowout.

Both Kenoi and Yagong see geothermal as part of the island’s energy portfolio, though the chairman has certainly done more to make it a campaign issue.

Yagong this year has introduced two bills aimed at resolving concerns by some of PGV’s neighbors by directing royalty money toward new health studies, additional monitoring, and creating an emergency response plan that would inform residents of how to evacuate.

Kenoi vetoed those two bill as well, noting that the county has emergency response measures in place and concern over provisions in the legislation that prevents the county from reselling homes acquired through its geothermal relocation program.

The mayor said he has made inquiries with experts at the University of Hawaii regarding a new health study, though he couldn’t say when or if that may happen.

“If geothermal has an adverse impact then we should have that documentation and information,” Kenoi said.


JMO.

[Punatic007]

^^^
That's old news and misleading, ahem. While he was the mayor, Harry Kim learned that the geothermal heavy industry and it's supporters hid too many important facts about the dangers of PGV in an active volcanic area bordering neighborhoods and within a 5 mile radius of many schools, homes and businesses.

Those who strongly support geothermal development in this location are either receiving royalties or have some other financial benefit such as employment which blinds them from making the right/ethical choices.

[TomK]

"Those who strongly support geothermal development in this location are either receiving royalties or have some other financial benefit such as employment which blinds them from making the right/ethical choices."

Good to know that we can narrow things down so quickly. There can't be any other reason, case closed.

[Rob Tucker]

I support geothermal and I don't receive any royalties or other benefit. A big attraction to me is that it is not oil and not being oil means fewer American soldiers might have to die defending oil company profits. One can hope.

[pahoated]

And another PW thread hijacked to be anti-geothermal. 1991 lives over and over and over and over. It is called fixation for a reason. It is said you can't teach an old dog new tricks. An old Puna dog can't be taught anything.

"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"

[Punatic007]

Ted, 1991 was absolutely devastating for lower Puna residents affected by the geothermal accidents. I was directly working with victims/patients everyday during that era for years, at first I thought they were over-reacting hippies and scammers but slowly and surely I learned thru observation and hard facts these folks were harmed and in danger. The location of geothermal on the Big Island was abruptly changed to the Leilani area from the original designated site in Volcanos near the Golf course community. They would have nothing of it and luckily had enough attorneys living in the area to block the development.

Now this heavy industry is employing fracking. Do your research, what area isn't eventually devastated and ruined by fracking? Because of recent lava activity(within 100+ yrs) the underground looks like swiss cheese, lava tubes taking poisoned waters all throughout lower Puna, polluting private and state land from the bottom up.