07-31-2012, 07:47 AM
It will be important to see how Fred Blas votes on this important issue. There is a loud minority with Luddite inclinations who want to see geothermal studied to death at best, and done away with at worst. I find it amazing that after 20+ years in the most litigious society on earth, no one has managed to successfully sue for medical damages. Why is that? Could there be no proof? Yet we still hear people blaming every imaginable malady on geothermal. Council Candidate James Weatherford has cagily posted some discussion about geothermal here on Punaweb, but tries not to answer direct questions on the subject. When I asked him directly at the HPP candidate forum, he responded in oblique terms about "safety is foremost," but couldn't offer any verifiable evidence of harm. I think his position is "study it to death," but he spoke like a typical politician hedging his bets.