09-10-2008, 03:46 AM
After the County pays to get these workers trained, who then hires the workers and why should the County pay to figure out how to train workers for private enterprises? I suppose the Federal Government is the one providing most of the funding to train these folks, though, huh? Still, until one knows what sort "energy worker" jobs will be available how can these folks be trained?
Wonder if this has anything to do with that statewide biomass powerplants now allowed on AG land bill they passed on Oahu? Apparently, now folks can build a biomass power plant on AG land without having community input since it is an "allowable" AG use and only needs to get a signature of the Planning Department. Who will automatically sign it since it is an allowable use. I guess folks building bio-mass plants still have to get an air use permit, though, so there is hopefully still a few restrictions on their building practices. Wish they would have specified "non-prime ag lands or something" although I haven't specifically read that bill.
Trying to be green via political means sure seems a hard road to go. There are a lot of folks doing green things on a very grass roots level without any political help at all. Generally it seems by the time the political machine has become involved it is no longer a "for the people" sort of thing but a special interest group driving the changes.
Wonder if this has anything to do with that statewide biomass powerplants now allowed on AG land bill they passed on Oahu? Apparently, now folks can build a biomass power plant on AG land without having community input since it is an "allowable" AG use and only needs to get a signature of the Planning Department. Who will automatically sign it since it is an allowable use. I guess folks building bio-mass plants still have to get an air use permit, though, so there is hopefully still a few restrictions on their building practices. Wish they would have specified "non-prime ag lands or something" although I haven't specifically read that bill.
Trying to be green via political means sure seems a hard road to go. There are a lot of folks doing green things on a very grass roots level without any political help at all. Generally it seems by the time the political machine has become involved it is no longer a "for the people" sort of thing but a special interest group driving the changes.
Kurt Wilson