02-27-2015, 06:01 AM
Obie good morning to ya. Thank you for the good reading material for it should take some time. Look those studies took place a half century ago and the die-offs look and acted completely different. You are probably right again and I should just stop beating this dead horse I have been riding.
Would you or anyone here know a few things about the last well drilled by geothermal? Why was it drilled, to what depth, and how long did it really take? We here in upper leilani remember hearing it most nights through the lava tubes on our property. Maybe their technology really has improved because we have not heard any of this new wells drilling yet. Maybe they are drilling in a new location or in a slightly lower elevation that we don't hear it.
Those past die-offs acted very similarly, where this current die-off looks and acts nothing like those past die-offs prior to geothermal here. Even J.B Friday (tree and forest expert)said to me that he has never seen anything like this die-off, because of the speed and spread of the death to the trees. Maybe our scientists, labs, and technology is better now than then and deserve the funds to do their jobs.
Would anyone here know where the well that found lava exactly is, did it get capped and what year? Maybe the Ohia trees dying like this is not that important to the dlnr, or Oha, and others. maybe our aina will be better off without them and everything that lives within them? We would like to see a well deserved study of this ohia die-off, to bring area jobs and a peace of mind regarding future geothermal operations in lower Puna.
Geothermal has continued to grow over the last 30 years and have had many accidents or releases of toxic gasses. They are my closest neighbor that has a history of killing this type of tree in the past. Now we have an environmental catastrophy growing in lower Puna at the same time and you and many others don't think it would be worth its own study, why not? This is of course just my opinion, I would like to see all dozing, development, and drilling halted for 3 years, in conjunction to having a well done study for this die-off. Our county, state, and helco want to protect their interests and royalties while adding yet another power plant in this infected area. My keiki want to build a tree house out of dead ohia, looks as though everyone will get what they want. Win-win.
Would you or anyone here know a few things about the last well drilled by geothermal? Why was it drilled, to what depth, and how long did it really take? We here in upper leilani remember hearing it most nights through the lava tubes on our property. Maybe their technology really has improved because we have not heard any of this new wells drilling yet. Maybe they are drilling in a new location or in a slightly lower elevation that we don't hear it.
Those past die-offs acted very similarly, where this current die-off looks and acts nothing like those past die-offs prior to geothermal here. Even J.B Friday (tree and forest expert)said to me that he has never seen anything like this die-off, because of the speed and spread of the death to the trees. Maybe our scientists, labs, and technology is better now than then and deserve the funds to do their jobs.
Would anyone here know where the well that found lava exactly is, did it get capped and what year? Maybe the Ohia trees dying like this is not that important to the dlnr, or Oha, and others. maybe our aina will be better off without them and everything that lives within them? We would like to see a well deserved study of this ohia die-off, to bring area jobs and a peace of mind regarding future geothermal operations in lower Puna.
Geothermal has continued to grow over the last 30 years and have had many accidents or releases of toxic gasses. They are my closest neighbor that has a history of killing this type of tree in the past. Now we have an environmental catastrophy growing in lower Puna at the same time and you and many others don't think it would be worth its own study, why not? This is of course just my opinion, I would like to see all dozing, development, and drilling halted for 3 years, in conjunction to having a well done study for this die-off. Our county, state, and helco want to protect their interests and royalties while adding yet another power plant in this infected area. My keiki want to build a tree house out of dead ohia, looks as though everyone will get what they want. Win-win.