04-09-2012, 08:24 AM
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Originally posted by dakine
Because we used the environmental impacts as the basis of our concerns, and had gotten the NPS, the USFS, and US Fish and Wildlife to be a party to our complaint, this resulted, a few years later, in the introduction of the idea that the forest in the middle rift to be of a lessor biological concern, and the eventual land swap, in which Campbell estates traded their holdings in the upper rift for the land in the middle rift, just mauka of Pahoa.
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dakine, you are shading the history a bit here: the original proponent of the land swap was the attorney representing the opponents to the proposed geothermal development with supportive testimony coming from NPS, Sierra Club, and others opposed to the development. I was there too...