02-03-2015, 06:40 AM
Ironyak, once again we must thank you for your time and contributions. Have you ever seen the movie Erin Brockivich staring Julia Roberts? Great movie, unfortunately this Puna county looks to be very similar. Almost seems as though big business Ormat geothermal has implants already living and posing here as residents.
These contracts and or permits Mike K is referring to on why this nighttime drilling ban does not apply to geothermal feel old and out of date. The great people of lower puna are very divided about even wanting geothermal production at all anymore in these parts. Those contracts were made or signed before this county became such a tourist destination. We here in Puna don't need geo for power, jobs, or money like we may have 20 or 30 years ago. Many folks here are catering to the tourism just like Oahu or kona, the restaurants and vacation rentals are doing well because of the new flow and its unique rural places now on the map.
This grandfathering of geothermal and its contracts should not speak for our changing community of today. Ormat wants us to believe we the people need them to survive, the truth is Ormat needs our resources from under us. These resources are much more valuable today than 20 years ago, probably even more so 20 years from now. We need to stall the current geothermal contract, to allow some time to revise and reform the numbers and language written to conform to the needs of this community because of the impacts of this new lava flow and its uncertainties. Can Our county do this or not, they did this a few times with the relocation fund.
Puna's land and community have been the lab rats to this experimental drilling for well over thirty years now. Now that geothermal has better technology and claims they can gather these resources elsewhere, it may seem like the wrong time for our county to pull out? Yet if Ormat had to drill on Maui or Kona for the next 30 years and deal with a different community, or resource, we would know more as a community what we truly have in value under our feet. We need the break to do the dozen or so studies needed, which should provide more local jobs than geothermal is currently. JMOpinions
These contracts and or permits Mike K is referring to on why this nighttime drilling ban does not apply to geothermal feel old and out of date. The great people of lower puna are very divided about even wanting geothermal production at all anymore in these parts. Those contracts were made or signed before this county became such a tourist destination. We here in Puna don't need geo for power, jobs, or money like we may have 20 or 30 years ago. Many folks here are catering to the tourism just like Oahu or kona, the restaurants and vacation rentals are doing well because of the new flow and its unique rural places now on the map.
This grandfathering of geothermal and its contracts should not speak for our changing community of today. Ormat wants us to believe we the people need them to survive, the truth is Ormat needs our resources from under us. These resources are much more valuable today than 20 years ago, probably even more so 20 years from now. We need to stall the current geothermal contract, to allow some time to revise and reform the numbers and language written to conform to the needs of this community because of the impacts of this new lava flow and its uncertainties. Can Our county do this or not, they did this a few times with the relocation fund.
Puna's land and community have been the lab rats to this experimental drilling for well over thirty years now. Now that geothermal has better technology and claims they can gather these resources elsewhere, it may seem like the wrong time for our county to pull out? Yet if Ormat had to drill on Maui or Kona for the next 30 years and deal with a different community, or resource, we would know more as a community what we truly have in value under our feet. We need the break to do the dozen or so studies needed, which should provide more local jobs than geothermal is currently. JMOpinions