01-11-2016, 04:25 AM
Hotinhawaii, great point.
Yes you are correct this Ohia wilt fungus may not have anything to do with geothermal? Then again our community should have had some promised environmental health studies done, a few working air monitors, an improved geothermal relocation process to help quell these uncertainties of living within a mile or two from this Geothermal experimental power plant,jmo.
Geothermal makes a little money from puna's resources(water and steam), yet Ormats geothermal power plant or good nieghbor has offered no help to this current situation. I did talk to many including Mike K(manager at geothermal) about the possible ways this disease could be spreading. Every time a bulldozer was used around the geothermal power plant it was spreading this fungus. The disease ran very fast up helco-geothermal power line roads, even faster when they had them recleared recently during this ohia wilt outbreak. I did invite Mike K and others to take an early look at this disease about five years ago, he must have been to busy?
Geothermal Health or environmental impact studies should have been ongoing during this outbreak so we would be able to have things like pictures, data, and tests to compare with,jmo. Until I mentioned the possibilities of it being caused or spread by geothermal it fell on deaf ears including our Mayors. While some here may have opinions or want to blame or Mame other community members like Bob P for his harvesting of wood technique's. I choose to think county, state, and experimental geothermal lava drilling may have contributed to this dire situation Puna is currently living with,jmo. My point is we are all in this together. While Geothermal power plant may not have started this outbreak it does sit on ground zero and has continued to help spread this fungus.
Yes you are correct this Ohia wilt fungus may not have anything to do with geothermal? Then again our community should have had some promised environmental health studies done, a few working air monitors, an improved geothermal relocation process to help quell these uncertainties of living within a mile or two from this Geothermal experimental power plant,jmo.
Geothermal makes a little money from puna's resources(water and steam), yet Ormats geothermal power plant or good nieghbor has offered no help to this current situation. I did talk to many including Mike K(manager at geothermal) about the possible ways this disease could be spreading. Every time a bulldozer was used around the geothermal power plant it was spreading this fungus. The disease ran very fast up helco-geothermal power line roads, even faster when they had them recleared recently during this ohia wilt outbreak. I did invite Mike K and others to take an early look at this disease about five years ago, he must have been to busy?
Geothermal Health or environmental impact studies should have been ongoing during this outbreak so we would be able to have things like pictures, data, and tests to compare with,jmo. Until I mentioned the possibilities of it being caused or spread by geothermal it fell on deaf ears including our Mayors. While some here may have opinions or want to blame or Mame other community members like Bob P for his harvesting of wood technique's. I choose to think county, state, and experimental geothermal lava drilling may have contributed to this dire situation Puna is currently living with,jmo. My point is we are all in this together. While Geothermal power plant may not have started this outbreak it does sit on ground zero and has continued to help spread this fungus.