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Home My WebLink AboutCOM 0059.001 1996-1998 U I:IUUCrt ° ° ~lUt/C:,t ~ ~ ~ Preserving the P.O. Box 263, Pahoa, Hawaii 96778 good in Puna Adrian Barber President Phone & fax: (808) 965-6050 Pahoa Office: (808) 965-0557 Tuesday, January 21, 1997 Chairperson Chung, Members of the Committee on Finance. Aloha. ~~~RECEIVED llme__------------ B y'-- ~ ,/a, - Data._.-_-------- a-- . Good morning. Coumy councu f c My name is Adrian Barber. I reside in Leilani Estates and work in Lani Puna Gardens close to Puna Geothermal Venture. I have the honor to serve the community effected by toxic Hydrogen Sulphide emmisions in Puna as President of Pune Malama Pono, a non-profit autonomous group. We are proponents of the healthy environment guaranteed citizens of Hawaii by the Constitution of Hawaii. We oppose being poisoned in our homes by the recent intrusion into our residential neighborhoods by industrial plants that can not or will not contain the toxic by products of their opperation. With regard to Communication 59: (Bill 14) I urge you to vote "No". This is a simple issue. If geothermal developement posses no threat to the health and safety of the neighboring communites then there is no need for a Geothermal Royalty Fund to buy out people who are not effected by a plant that posses no threat and the County does not need to get into the realty business with money urgently needed for other pressing needs in the community. If there is a threat to the community and lives and health are at risk, as a recent study by the University of Texas Toxicology Department seems to strongly indicate, then the proper course of action would be to enforce the County permits under which such industrial plants opperate. In this case that it is GRP-1 and I quote Condition One. The proposed geothermal developement activities would not have unreasonable adverse health, environmental, or socio-economic effects on the residents or surrounding property."I hope you take my point. w We shall be, you can be sure, watching very closely the development of this administrations attempt to, in our opion, pull the wool over the voters eyes with politicaly motivated actions in gross disregard for the spirit, and we believe, the letter of th Corns. Aiw • A HawaiYnon-profit corporation certified pursuant fo lRS Code § 501(c)(3J 111e i7o. FN O O PF- Presented C. xef. 7b:.~„~99T - U l:/U4C°.t ~ ~ ~JUUC:,S ~ ~ ~ Preserving the P.O. Box 263, Pahoa, Hawaii 96778 good in Puna Adrian Barber President Phone & fax: (808) 965-6050 Pahoa Office: (808) 965-0557 Tues., Jan. 21 1997 Committee On Finance page two Law such as this. Please, do not contribute to this deplorable and expensive public relations campaign by the powers that would silence a community outraged by years of abuse at the hands of ruthless, greedy developers and the regulatiary agencies mandated to controll these developers but who seem to simply rubber stamp approval of the constant, deadly intusions into the lives of their neighbors. Thank you. A Hawaii non-profit corporation certified pursuant to lRS Code § 501(c)(3J ..u-. .-c ~t 11Y~111~~~4, ~,p~ ~ ~ • ` ~ Pic' - d.:~.:f, u ~ ~ C c, v } , 1- ~ ~D~ ` ; / ~ ~ d , „a''•""'`'+.\ Bernard K Akana Planning Co~m~Gsion t~~' M,yo. ~ ss eap~i sue, xm. ios • Fmo, Hawaii ono • (eos~ vii-azae CERTIcIED MAIL October 3, 1989 Maurice A. Richard, Hawaii Regional Development Manager Puna Geothermal Venture 101 Aupuni Street, Suite 1014-B Hilo, HI 96720 Dear Mr. Richard: Geothermal Resource Permit Application (GRP 87-1) Puna Geothermal Venture - 25 MW '(net) Development Rapoho, Hawaii TMR: 1-4-01: por. 2, 3, por. 19, s 58 The Planning Commission at its duly held meeting on September 19, 1989, considered this Geothermal~Resource Permit Application and based on the following findings, approved the project consisting of 10 integrated back-pressure steam turbine and air-cooled binary cycle turbine power generating modules; up to 30 geothermal wells drilled from 6 well pads; brine and steam pipelines, pollution control equipment; a brine surge tank and holding pond; a swit'chyatd; an off ice,.warehouse, workshop, and control buildings; access roads; and auxiliary facilities such es air compressors, fire protection equipment, etc.: 1. The proposed geothermal development activities wouhd not have unreasona e a verse ea th, env ronmental, or socio-econQmic___ __=e~?ects_on residents or surrounding prOperty_ The project will occupy approximately 25 acres of surface area within a dedicated S00-acre project area located within the Rapoho Section of the Kilauea Lower East Rift Geothermal Resource Subzone. Approximately 2.75 acres of land will be cleared and_leveled f.or_ each of 6 drill pads. Each drill site will be engineered to support the drilling equipment and to keep drilling effluent•contained onsite and separate from any natural drainage. Each well pad will have drilling mud pits; sumps with gently sloped walls used to temporarily store drilling wastes which typically consist of rock cuttings, waste drilling mud,