2019-03-19 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes (Amended)

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – March 19, 2019 We’re gonna call the meeting back to order. Go ahead. KO: Our name represents our commitment in creating sustainable green energy, supporting local agriculture, working to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and stimulating our local economy. We’ve got right now about 33 permanent employees down at the Hu Honua that will be ongoing employment for the next 30 years. We continue to transition our name from Hu Honua which started the project and we’ve recently launched our brand name and on our website as Honua Ola Bioenergy and you can see that at Honuaolabioenergy.com. OK. This is our facility as of today. As you can see we’ve got most of the plant finished right now. We’ve got our boilers complete, our turbine installed, all the emissions controlled. We’ve got our fuel storage, our chipper building, which is an enclosed building and we’ve got out maintenance building also. OK. The site, which Honua Ola sits on was an industrial site for over a century and in proud production for nearly a quarter of a century. First started out as a sugar plantation back in 1857 – there was a – the plantation was sold – a name change – in ’71 there was a merger which then changed to Hilo Coast Processing Company HCPC – as people might know it of. In 1974 the new mill was built – the building was modernized in to what you see today so you guys might have seen some photos of is six years ago it looks nothing like it does today. The Hilo Coast Processing began burning to substitute for the bagass in 1985 and then 1994 it was converted over to strictly coal as the bagasse went away from them stop harvesting cane and it continued to do that till 2004. Again, Honua Ola is a state-of-the-art facility – revitalization of an existing facility – replacing fossil fuel for a renewable resource that we produce here on Island. Minimizing environmental impacts Honua Ola’s output, as I mentioned before, was 21.5 megawatts – this will reduce the Island’s – us burning 250,000 barrels of oil per year so that’s here on Island – so we’re reducing that. The bioenergy provides a predictable, firm, stable renewable energy and it also, you know, when the wind stops blowing when the sun goes down we stay going and actually send power out to the grid so it’s for stability. The carbon dioxide released by the plant will be offset by the growth of forest – that is a managed forest so for, you know, when we cut down trees – we replant trees – so you’ve always got that cycle, you know, if there’s CO emissions – the trees will consume the Co2 and then oxygen is produced from that – from the trees. And with this displacement of the existing fossil fuel a significant reduction in carbon is expected and this kind of shows the slide shows our cycle coming from trees – it’s harvested – the logs are sent to the facility – it’s being burned in the boiler creating electricity for the houses in the community. There is CO2 emissions and those emissions then the trees consume the CO2 turn to oxygen. We do have ash by product – that will go out into the fields as fertilizer and during this we use well water – it’s salt water or it’s got salinity to it – we’ll be using that to cool 6