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CCean Earth Energy ~fawaii - ~fiCo, Sustainable Integrate~`Waste to ~E.nergy Patties Hilo Environmental Dilemma The Hilo landfill is at or past capacity and was scheduled to be closed in Mazch, 2006. Immediate closure of the cunent landfill was recently stopped by local City and County Councils. A temporary fix was approved allowing the slopes on the sides of the 200 foot high garbage mountain to be increased, thus squeezing out some additional space around the 2 million tons of disposed waste. Time is running out for a solution in Hilo. Options to replace the landfill currently being considered include: 1. Shipping approximately 80 trucks per day canying 200 tons of waste 80 miles and 2 hours to the Kohala Coast landfill, through traffic-jammed Kamuela to North Kona's Puuanahulu Landfill, the only remaining landfill on the island located 2 miles from the large resorts along the west coast. The cost of closing the old Hilo landfill and constructing a transfer station to accommodate shipments is estimated between $35 and $75 million Landfill tipping fees will also increase above $75/ton because of the cost of transportation fuel and its inherent volatility. 2. Exploring and developing a new, high-tech method of garbage disposal is estimated to cost as much as $60 million -all of this for a community of approximately 50,000 persons, exclusive of small outlying areas. Among options evaluated to date is waste-to~nergy combustion, thermal gasification or anaerobic digestion technology. This higher cost will again result in increased waste tipping fees to the public. 3. Shipping the waste to the mainland for off-loading and transfer to a regional landfill such as Rabanco in Yakima, Washington is feasible. This option is currently used in South East, Alaska; under similaz crises with garbage, at a cost of $130/ton This represents a total estimated cost between $45 and $85 million to Hilo. In three, years shipment costs in SE Alaska have escalated from $90/to to $130kon The option is financially weak. The county still has not decided on an option, where it might be built or deployed and how to pay for it. County officials and waste management experts agree it will take years before construction of a new option can even begin. Regardless, within one to two years a solution will be mandated because waste is generated every day without ceasing and the landfill is almost full. Requests for Proposal have been solicited by government agencies serving the residents of Hilo to solve the problem. Several proposals have been evaluated and a few have been selected for fiuther consideration. However, each of the proposals request significant amounts of funding from the County and City tazgeting old outdated incineration methods. Clean Earth Energy Hawaii-Hilo LLC has developed a state of the arthigh-tech advanced solution for Hilo and for Hawaii in general, which resolves the lack of landfill space, ineffective waste management, groundwater contamination, lack of renewable energy and cleanup of contaminated real estate through development of a privately owned and operated Sustainable Integrated Waste to Energy Facility. The SIWEF insures short and long term waste management, fuel and electrical production cost stabilization Clean Earth Energy Hawaii -Hilo LLC can implement a private solution with significant benefits to the residents of Hilo and sun-ounding areas. S/WEF Teckn&a/ Psoposa! ConfidenNa/ 3