09-28-2011, 01:53 PM
Today's Tribune Herald has a front page story about an informational meeting on Geothermal. I notice that the meetings are in Waimea and Kona but the dates are missing. It may be a purposeful omission because the real impacts occur in Puna. I am not a NIMBY (Not in my backyard) but rather an AIMBY (Already in my backyard). This is a new Geothermal provider INNOVATIONS DEVELOPMENT and not PGV Puna Geothermal Venture (ORMAT) who has been taking the resource from Puna and transmitting the power to Hilo with not one KW distributed here in Puna. Meanwhile, residents living right next to the well and bearing the brunt of the inconvenience of noise, light, and air pollution are paying oil inflated electricity rates, some of the highest in the nation. Of course, I stand among those who wish to rid our dependency on fossil fuels but common sense needs to prevail. The people living closest to the resource should be provided the lowest electricity prices in the nation.