Richard Ha writes:
I’m speaking on a radio program about geothermal tomorrow afternoon (Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 5:15 p.m.). It’s on KGU AM, if you’re in Honolulu, or you can listen to the program online tomorrow.
The main speaker will be former Hawai‘i County Mayor Harry Kim.
Joining him for the first half of the program will be Robert Petricci, leader of the Puna Pono Alliance, and Tom Travis, Navy nuclear submarine commander.
For the show’s second half, it will be Mayor Kim, me and Professor Don Thomas, PhD, who is Director of the Center for the Study of Active Volcanoes at the University of Hawai‘i.
If you get a chance to listen, let me know what you think.
Did you happen to notice (Ian Lind’s article in Civil Beat today) that the Aina Koa Pono folks were the source of the 6th or 7th highets political contributions in 2011/2012? That’s the type of hardball competition that geothermal faces. It’s not competition based on technology, science or even public interest. It’s competition by the thickness of the wallet.
Aloha Richard
It’s a good thing that the Big Island Community Coalition does not compete on money. They have less than $100 dollars and two grocery bags full of black rubbah slippahs.
I could not find the article. Please send link. Mahalo
Here ya go… look at the chart on the bottom of the article.
http://www.civilbeat.com/posts/2013/04/03/18740-hawaii-monitor-lobbyist-gave-nearly-100000-to-candidates-last-election/