• Who’s degrading Kaua‘i? • Green Energy costs are less than oil • Mahalo, y’all • Post beach dangers on all shores • Against Green Energy Who’s degrading Kaua‘i? Example: The formerly macadam road between the airport road (Ahukini) and
• Who’s degrading Kaua‘i? • Green Energy costs are less than oil • Mahalo, y’all • Post beach dangers on all shores • Against Green Energy
Who’s degrading Kaua‘i?
Example: The formerly macadam road between the airport road (Ahukini) and Kuhio Highway.
Macadam is easy on the eyes, easy on tires and blends so well with any landscape. So, the brain trust tears it out and replaces it with concrete, which is abrasive, glare-y and as ugly as sin.
We’re getting more Maui-ish with each “improvement.”
Richard Schulz, Princeville
Green Energy costs are less than oil
In recent years, solar power has essentially become a commodity like gas or oil and has been treated as such by the Hawai‘i Public Utilities Commission, which has made public the prices utilities are paying for solar.
Not so with a unique project like the Green Energy biomass plant. Revealing the price KIUC will pay for Green Energy’s power would put the cooperative at a clear disadvantage in future negotiations with energy providers.
And it would also discourage developers from doing business with KIUC if they were forced to tip off their competitors to the price they’re charging.
Both the PUC and the Consumer Advocate know the price KIUC is paying and approved our power purchase agreement with Green Energy. They also agreed to keep that figure confidential.
But our members should know that the price we will pay Green Energy is less than oil. And the capacity of this plant and its contribution of firm power to our system helped make it possible for KIUC to avoid building another fossil fuel plant, representing a huge cost savings to members.
KIUC’s renewable energy goals are aggressive, but we’re not pursuing them at any cost. Projects have to make sense financially for our members. We have, in fact, rejected a number of projects as being too expensive or as being unfeasible.
Jim Kelly, KIUC Communications Manager, Lihu‘e
Mahalo, y’all
We have been visiting Kaua‘i every year for the past 18 years now, and we wanted to say how very grateful we are to everyone there who has made every trip so special, and those who have been so welcoming and kind.
We particularly would like to publicly thank Jo Grande and Wil Welsh, who have been so good to us, and to all the talented people associated with Kaua‘i Community Players.
This weekend, they will be opening the third play they’ve done of ours at the Puhi Theatrical Warehouse location, and we are so proud to know our comedy about Southern women and the power of life-long friendship, “The Dixie Swim Club,” is in such capable hands.
When you go to see the play over the next three weekends (and you really should!), please know that we thank you all for YOUR friendship all of these years — so come enjoy some big, big laughs — from our island (of Manhattan) to yours! Aloha, y’all!
Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, New York City
Post beach dangers on all shores
Get information about dangers of all beaches on all shores before you risk lives of our rescue teams.
It’s not Kaua‘i’s fault — it’s those that didn’t read.
Barbara Beissert, Kilauea
Against Green Energy
When you tell the Anahola DHHL lease holders that they are about to have 2,000-plus acres taken from them to be used by someone they don’t know or trust, The Green Energy Team LLC & Partners, what do you expect?
Fierce opposition and the potential for violent confrontation is what you might expect.
The talk of the town is that the track record of one of the partners has left a bad taste in the mouths of hundreds here in Anahola.
This was evidenced by the number of extremely angry people that showed up for the informational meeting on Friday and booed them down.
The Hawaiians here are not backwards in their thinking, they know that being green is the way of their ancestors and the way of our modern world. Of course they want green energy, they just don’t want it from this G-TEAM.
They are intelligent enough to know that monetarily they would be getting the short end of the deal, which is 98 percent for the G-TEAM and 2 percent for the Hawaiians.
This is just plain criminal, shame on them! We Hawaiians can and will come up with a smarter, brighter and GREENER plan that benefits all of us in this community and most definitely with more than just 2 percent of the millions that the G-TEAM would profit from their plan.
Imua Anahola!
Integrity and honesty always prevails.
Agnes Marti-Kini, Anahola
