The Public Utilities Commission granted Maui County and Life of the Land intervenor status in the review of Hawaiian Electric Co.’s proposal to charge customers for a $4 million study on “Big Wind.” According to the Maui News article by Harry Eager: Henry Curtis of Life of the Land said customers should not be forced […]
Gov Hints at Big Wind Military Tie-in
According to a Civil Beat article written by Robin Kaye of Friends of Lana’i: The Governor then confirmed what many on Lana’i have long feared (but which has so far been denied) — he’s been talking with the Department of Defense about their playing a significant role in Big Wind. He implied that there is […]
I Aloha Moloka’i Press Release
The anti “Big Wind” organization, I Aloha Moloka’i has issued this press release. Big Wind May Soon Give up on Molokai News Release from www.IAlohaMolokai.com June 29, 2011 AFTER THREE PUBLIC MEETINGS last week in Molokai, industrial wind factory developers Pattern Energy and Bio-Logical Capital said they will abandon the Big Wind project if the […]
Broadband Attached to Big Wind Cable?
Gov. Neil Abercrombie today signed a bill into law to temporarily exempt the development of broadband infrastructure from state and county permitting requirements. The law allows for permitting exemptions for five years – from 2012 to 2017 – on broadband upgrades on existing utility poles and conduits used for telecommunications. Telecommunications companies would also be […]
Pattern Isn’t Backing Down
Extracts from Pacific Business News Pattern “Energy stays committed to wind farm“ (I Aloha Moloka’i disputes Pattern’s low meeting attendance numbers that are quoted in this article.) Despite a series of contentious meetings on Molokai this week, San Francisco-based Pattern Energy won’t be fleeing Hawaii, according to David Parquet, the wind-energy developer’s director of development […]
More Coverage of Moloka’i Big Wind Meeting
Moloka’i Dispatch is reporting that jobs from Big Wind on Moloka’i will only be about ten or twenty local jobs and that virtually all the jobs created will go to imported mainland workers. Molokai Properties president and CEO Peter Nicholas reports that the State is talking about condemning his land to do the Big Wind […]