PGV plans new well

[Rob Tucker]

Problem after problem after problem always seem to rest on the County's illegal subdivision of 80,000 lots in Puna.

But they take no responsibility.

[bananahead]

Why don't they just send all the antiPVG complaining neibours on a trip to Barstow or Yuba City?

They do need to drill to get the steam you know... pretend you live next to an airport or in NYC for awhile....

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[Guest]

So bananahead, you think these anti geo people should be relocated? That's exactly what some of them have been asking for. The process takes years and some of them will not live long enough to see it. It's a crime that they used the relocation fund to build a dump. Now we all know that was a waste of money. Try not to be so hard on people who may have health issues from their geothermal neighbor. They are trying their best and deserve to have a voice and be heard.

[leilanidude]

gypsy - your perceived health issues aren't from geothermal, they are from living on an active volcano, in the immediate vicinity of natural steam vents, active lava flows and buring vegetation from those flows.

[Guest]

Actually, Leilani dude my perceived health issues are from the geothermal. My health issues are due to years of exposure. This geothermal plant is dirty and sneaky. They are just a big polluter that could careless about who is affected and only about profit.

[Punaperson]

gypsy: "This geothermal plant is dirty and sneaky. They are just a big polluter that could careless about who is affected and only about profit. "

So in your view, all the people that work there, people who are our neighbors and part of our community, are willingly and actively poisoning their own families along with everyone else ?

You've written that you are in Leilani. You've mentioned many times how bad the air is where you are, sometimes from geothermal, sometimes vog, sometimes the smoke from this flow. It sounds like you live in an low spot that cups any gas heavier than air that will sink into a hollow, no matter what the source.

I related in an earlier post about looking to purchase property in Leilani during 1979-80, and how the most vile smell I've ever encountered drove me away after a single breath. That was 14 years before geothermal. The real-estate agent called it a "Kapoho fart" (sorry if that come's off as disrespectful - it's her direct quote, not my phrasing ). She said it happened on and off because of the volcano down the road, and that some spots were worse than others depending on way the cracks in the lava run.

Your 'years of exposure' are not in doubt. But the cause of that exposure has a history in Puna much longer than geothermal.

[waawaawah]

Punaperson, Just curious. Do you or Ohana work at geothermal? Aloha

[lavalava]

Punaperson - please come and visit the residential areas within a mile of PGV when the drilling commences. Bring your earplugs!

[Guest]

Punaperson, thank you for your opinion. Must have been very beautiful here back in 1980, I know it was cause I also was here then. The kapoho fart could have been from the geothermal operating well only 2-3 miles above leilani at the time. The well became operational in 1976 producing 3Mw, the name was hgp-a and drilled to about 2,000 meters. This well was successfully operated about 95% of the time, although it was very dirty and did kill off 100 year old Ohia around its site.

You had a very good real estate agent who would rather tell you that a volcano fart happened 8 miles down the road. The other option she or he had was to tell you the truth about the dirty plant only a couple miles above you leaks at times and the trade winds especially at night blow it into your face here in leilani. The current plant may be better now but the headaches, lies, and broken promises have taken their toll. Sorry about the constant noise and complaints from my wife and ohana, the holidays are somewhat stressful to this point. Go easy punaperson and bannanaheads of the island.

[faroutsider]

I think Gypsy is being polite and reasonable. He is dealing with this nearly every day, keeps an open mind, and it is not like he is beating a dead horse like some people.

Most people working in the asbestos industry were not willingly trying to kill people. Same with the military, fracking, etc. If one is sensitive to an extremely toxic substance it does not take much. To make that connection from what he said to be an attack on the employees of the plant is so lazy and ridiculous.