12-30-2014, 07:01 AM
Obviously Puna is not everybody's HOME, where they were raised that is. Not everyone has lost family and or friends at early ages from rare cancers that did live within 1 mile from geothermal. Some facts may be buried, rip. How can we know if geothermal was the killer of these young souls, without a proper health study?. Because of the lack of health facilities or health studies, a known dirty, sneaky, power plant so close to residential living couldn't be why some are left with heartache.
Opihikao sorry for lumping you and your ohana into the paid off side from geothermal royalties. Yet the amount of free gas that county, state, and government employees here in Hawaii use keeps the prices high for everyone. The taxes are high to help the same offices like OHA. The state ties the geothermal resource to the price of oil yet encourages more free gas to an over inflated county and state work force that all has bubbled pension plans with puna venture or helco interests or stock. The only folks who have not seen a red cent from geothermal are the poor folks who have lived next to geothermal and has had to call it a good neighbor. The good people here were poor before geothermal, they are still poor with fewer voices to be heard.
Never has anyone from any health study walked up my driveway to simply ask a few questions about geothermal or the health impacts felt living so close for so many years. With out the affected peoples testimony how can their be a well ran health study? The allergies, skin ailments, tumors, and in some cases loss of beautiful life are felt and real. How can anyone know for sure the community has not been poisoned by our neighbor as Opihikao states?.
Opihikao sorry for lumping you and your ohana into the paid off side from geothermal royalties. Yet the amount of free gas that county, state, and government employees here in Hawaii use keeps the prices high for everyone. The taxes are high to help the same offices like OHA. The state ties the geothermal resource to the price of oil yet encourages more free gas to an over inflated county and state work force that all has bubbled pension plans with puna venture or helco interests or stock. The only folks who have not seen a red cent from geothermal are the poor folks who have lived next to geothermal and has had to call it a good neighbor. The good people here were poor before geothermal, they are still poor with fewer voices to be heard.
Never has anyone from any health study walked up my driveway to simply ask a few questions about geothermal or the health impacts felt living so close for so many years. With out the affected peoples testimony how can their be a well ran health study? The allergies, skin ailments, tumors, and in some cases loss of beautiful life are felt and real. How can anyone know for sure the community has not been poisoned by our neighbor as Opihikao states?.