01-24-2017, 11:29 AM
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Originally posted by Chunkster
The current dump location already has the necessary infrastructure in place as well as an established transportation network to feed a compost facility from the transfer stations, but it probably won't happen because the neighbors don't want it. I have to wonder if that is because of any real new impacts on them or just because they want to feel empowered. Remember, these are DHHL communities. I will paraphrase George Orwell's "Animal Farm" again and say: "All communities are created equal, but some communities are more equal than others."
Yeah, the Homelands are so equal they already got industrial zoning, the docks, the dump, and the airport all foisted on them. I wonder how that happened?
All over Hawaii (state not just our island) Homelands get some of the worst possible land uses placed right next door: got some toxic ordnance to get rid of, put next to Homelands! Need a sewage treatment plant, put it next to Homelands and put the leaky outlet pipe right next to a Hawaiian canoe launch site. Yep, they sure are "empowered" on those Homelands, they get all the good stuff.
This pattern was established long before the Hawaiian cultural renaissance, the movers and shakers of Hawaii used Homelands as the catch all for bad land use planning and dirty, noisy, polluting activities, now the residents are saying enough is enough and you think they are getting special treatment? It is special all right, just not in a good way.