New Water Bottling Plant in Hilo Proposed

[Chunkster]

"Hilo can find all sorts of other industries if we want."

All sorts? What, pray tell? Please name something (or several somethings since you said "lots") that would be viable and get past the NIMBYs, the obstructionist county zoning/permitting apparatus, the extreme elements of the environmentalists, and the other pitfalls of doing business here.

And FWIW, I agree that plastic bottles are a problem. Blocking a relative small plant in East Hawaii won't solve it though.