Big Island in contract to buy land swallowed by lava flows
Tuesday, July 10, 2018 07:58 pm
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii — Lava flows have largely swallowed a $2.7 million land parcel the Big Island government planned to buy to use as a buffer between development and the Waiopae tide pools.
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What? The state government is going to spend nearly $3M to buy land that has just been destroyed by lava? While $10,000/acre seems cheap for land in Hawaii, grade A farm land in Minnesota is under $2000/acre and falling. Just exactly what does the state plan to do with this land? Why in the world should the state buy land to study lava flows? What landowner could possibly say “No” to a request from a state organization to study lava?
Who is getting bailed out here at taxpayer expense? Why isn’t the seller named in this article? Who is the Oligarch ripping off the taxpayers?