More HELCO fees ADVERTISING More HELCO fees Have you seen the latest HELCO bill? There is a new thing they call a “green infrastructure fee,” so they can charge more, which they claim on their propaganda leaflet will be offset
More HELCO fees
Have you seen the latest HELCO bill? There is a new thing they call a “green infrastructure fee,” so they can charge more, which they claim on their propaganda leaflet will be offset by another fee. Right.
What that means is the fee will be given another name and more gradually will be added to it, like the slow boiling of the lobster: Turn up the heat too fast, and the lobster will scream!
They had “green power” in the system for some time, so why do they feel the need to make the distinction between green infrastructure and non-green infrastructure now? Why didn’t they do this when they first got green power into the system? I’m waiting for the “PR fluffatron” to swing into full gear.
Dave Kisor
Pahoa
Clearing Highway 130
This would be a first-in-a-lifetime event. The fact that thousands of cars and people would cross a live or hot dormant lava flow, with real construction workers building it in the meantime — many with families counting on them to come home each evening — building the structure and/or roadway seems to me a pipe dream.
Can it be done? You bet it can. The logistics are incredible. First, it would take months. And millions of hard-to-find dollars. If the county wants to play at gaining experience doing this sort of thing, let them clear Apa‘a Street, starting now. The lava has cooled enough to plow through. Repave it real quick, and learn from that.
Clearing Highway 130 of lava should rank a high priority, every chance it gets. And that might happen dozens of times in the next few years. Or generations, if need be. This June 27 event might well last 50 years, as a flow did 500 years ago when it covered all of Hawaiian Paradise Park, Ainaloa and Hawaiian Beaches/Shores.
We are all alive today and are a witness to the current events. Hawaii Island has been around 850,000 years, going back to the Kohala Mountains. It’s a blink in time to us folks.
But a flow like this has happened many thousands of times before we got here. And as sad as this is, with our long-awaited local Malama mini-mall and us all getting used to using it, losing it was inevitable. It’s just we never knew when it would happen.
Maybe Pahoa will lose its use. We will be no better off than we were before it was built. We all will manage. We all will stay strong. It’s just the daughter of Mother Nature, Madame Pele, doing her thing. We folks will be alright. We will survive. And we will bounce back. You’ll see. Patience is key. Pahoa is forever.
Marcel Turmelle
Pahoa
