01-09-2016, 05:36 AM
Good morning PW and good to see this as a community concern instead of being ignored. Some interesting views or opinions so far to what this Ohia wilt is or where it started. This Wilt started very close to the geothermal power plant in lower Puna around the year they found THIS?
http://www.earthmagazine.org/article/agu...ising-lava
Pretty sure scientists or environmentalist were all over this discovery of gold here in Puna. Photos should have been taken around that well back in 2008,2009,2010,2011, and so on to compare or study possible environmental or community potential hazards from this Ormat discovery, JMO.
We saw this Wilt first back in 2009, 2010, hitting some of the biggest or most mature Ohia trees. The first calls I made out went to the mayor's office, dlnr, and Forrest division at UHH in the year of 2011. It took repeated calls and almost two years to get J.B friday to come take a look at what had by now devastated more than 50% of our biggest Ohia around the property. Mentioning the possibility of Geothermal contaminating or poisoning the Ohia is what helped get some attention to this growing devastation we were watching daily,jmo.
If geothermal did not cause this environmental disaster or contribute to it in some way then could it be proven they did not? Until then my opinion is that geothermal wells caused this problem seen nowhere else in the world, like there lava magma geothermal wells that are nowhere else in the world. These very hot temperatures, massive amounts of steam, leaking production wells and added geothermal waste could be a breeding ground for such wonders as Ohia wilt in my opinion.
http://www.earthmagazine.org/article/agu...ising-lava
Pretty sure scientists or environmentalist were all over this discovery of gold here in Puna. Photos should have been taken around that well back in 2008,2009,2010,2011, and so on to compare or study possible environmental or community potential hazards from this Ormat discovery, JMO.
We saw this Wilt first back in 2009, 2010, hitting some of the biggest or most mature Ohia trees. The first calls I made out went to the mayor's office, dlnr, and Forrest division at UHH in the year of 2011. It took repeated calls and almost two years to get J.B friday to come take a look at what had by now devastated more than 50% of our biggest Ohia around the property. Mentioning the possibility of Geothermal contaminating or poisoning the Ohia is what helped get some attention to this growing devastation we were watching daily,jmo.
If geothermal did not cause this environmental disaster or contribute to it in some way then could it be proven they did not? Until then my opinion is that geothermal wells caused this problem seen nowhere else in the world, like there lava magma geothermal wells that are nowhere else in the world. These very hot temperatures, massive amounts of steam, leaking production wells and added geothermal waste could be a breeding ground for such wonders as Ohia wilt in my opinion.