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If I recall the only related industry that was recommended as being economically viable was I believe an ethanol plant based on steam use. I would imagine that could be a useful industry and actually create more than a handful of decent jobs if there was buy in from all stakeholders. It would be one of those rare industries that uses local resources at scale to create more than a mom/pop operation and create a local industry that could benefit state (fuel) and local (variety of jobs including professional).
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I can't really say where Mike Kaleikini (manager of geothermal) is from but I'm guessing its not Philadelphia.
Assume the best and ask questions.
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Mike went to Hau'ula Elementary School on O'ahu from 1966 to 1972.
I might be mistaken but I don't believe is the plant manager any longer. He is their spoke's person or some similar title now.
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob Tucker
I can't really say where Mike Kaleikini (manager of geothermal) is from but I'm guessing its not Philadelphia.
So we have 1 management job that may have been hired locally, any others out there? Is that a worthwhile trade off for Puna?
I am not anti-geothermal per se, but do not approve of a company that insists the only way it can do business is to make loud noise 24/7 for months at a time when it is located next to a residential (in practical terms, not zoning) suburb.
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Import the equipment, and import the staff, and violate the specially-targeted noise ordinance because "it doesn't apply to us".
All the other corporates do this, why single out PGV?
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They have job openings in Puna right now. Do you suppose that no one in Puna can meet the job requirements ?
http://www.ormat.com/company/careers
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Originally posted by Obie
They have job openings in Puna right now. Do you suppose that no one in Puna can meet the job requirements ?
http://www.ormat.com/company/careers
Probably not, but that just confirms that PGV doesn't create jobs locally, so arguing that it provides a future place of employment for Puna's youth as a justification for putting up with a bad corporate neighbor clearly isn't a valid argument.
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I guess they wrote these requirements to specifically exclude anyone from Puna.
"The ability to understand procedures and instructions specific to the areas of assignment as would be acquired in three to four years of high school.
1 year of related experience and knowledge of administrative and office procedures.
The ability and knowledge to operate a variety of standard office equipment.
Must have the ability to work without supervision."
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Hate to bust anybody's bubble, but an employee of PGV lives next door, Hawaiian. I don't know his capacity with the company, probably not in administration but Geo needs ditch diggers and cat operators. He lives in the Beachlots, so must make a fair wage.
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there may or may not be valid issues against geothermal energy management, but one thing i know firsthand is that there is a history of reflexive outcry against geothermal in Puna steeped in a bandwagon of romanticized self-victimization and so-called nature-loving NIMBY hypocrisy.
