The following documents were identified as public comment and filed in Docket No. 2017-0122. July 23, 2020 - Hawaii.gov
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July 23, 2020 The following documents were identified as public comment and filed in Docket No. 2017-0122.
From: lea-francine ferreira Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 9:27 PM To: PUC Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Honua Ola I just watched a video Kauai biomass in Kauai it is the same type of plant that Honua ola is trying to do why cant we do this here. Please answer me this Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Tue, Jul 21,2020 at 2:49 PM, lea-francine ferreira wrote: Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 9:36 PM, lea-francine ferreira wrote: This is very disturbing that after all they have done to make sure everything is in place for a safe alternative to renewable energy you would do this to them. I'm in support of this project from the start and writing to you guys awhile back you said you were waiting on them for some reports. Which you did receive and now to just do this. Solar is not a sustainable energy and taking away more Hawaiian land as much as 400 to 900 acres is alot of homes that this state owes us hawaiian people. Shame on you guys for doing this and making all these people possible loose their jobs. I would hope you reconsider this people are awake to it all now. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android once again no response from you. You are there in place to make sure each company goes thur the proper process you shouldn't be stopping a project and jeopardizing so many jobs. How can you sleep easy especially when this company did everything this PUC wanted becareful I really do believe in karma.
From: Lea Ferreira Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 11:04 PM To: PUC Subject: [EXTERNAL] Honua ola project https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://youtu.be/6S2NeA9UnYc__ ;!!LIYSd FfckKA!jWIDWHn9oUU6R0Amoq7LnGHQgFrqPR YeQQ2ivT4CgOuqFhMvxGAMFMuGRyT-RiY$ Please don't let these men and women loose there jobs. I am in support of this project. I really would like to know why this can happen for one and not for honua ola . Does our people on the big island don't matter? Sent from my iPhone
From: Elmer Gorospe Jr
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 2:36 AM
To: PUC
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Honua Ola Bioenergy
Aloha board of commissioners.
My name is Keola Gorospe, I am an employee of the biomass project on the Big Island and a local resident of the Big
Island all my life. I am here before you asking for you to reconsider the denial of the PPA and hopefully seethe benefits
that this biomass project can provide for the island. The project would be sustainable and create job opportunities for
generations to come. This involves forestry and agricultural careers as well. The benefits of this project has been seen
as a positive impact by the Governor himself back in 2016 for Kauai's Biomass facility, Green Energy Team (GET). Please
reconsider your decision.
Thakvte you..
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CosAtrol Operator
2S-2S3 Su0Cir MILL Rd.
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CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained in this e-mail transmission and any attachment is confidential and remains the property of Keola Gorospe until it is
received by the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that use, further transmission or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited. If
you have received this communication in error, please notify egorospe@huhonua.com as soon as possible, and delete it from your computer without retaining any copies. Thank
you for your cooperation.
Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail
From: Ray Tanonaka < Raybwoy808@gmail.com > Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 7:26 AM To: PUC.Comments Subject: Comments to Hawai'i PUC Web Site - 07/23/2020 Name Ray Tanonaka Address 1110-A Komohana St. State HI Zip Code 96720 eMail Address Raybwoy808@gmail.com Docket Number 2017-0122 Subject Order#37205 Docket#2017-0122 Position Support Comment I am contacting you in regards of your dismissal of docket#2017-0122 regarding the power purchase agreement regarding Honua Ola Bioenergy. I support Honua Ola and their commitment to the communities of the Big Island. A clean , renewable energy supplier is what this Island needs in order to start heading into the right direction. Instead you chose to halt this project, while approving it a few times before. I ask that you reconsider your decision and let Honua Ola operate and lead us into the future.
From: Rob Duyao Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 7:48 AM To: PUC.Comments Subject: Comments to Hawai'i PUC Web Site - 07/23/2020 Name Rob Duyao Address 1253 Malawaina St. State HI Zip Code 96720 eMail Address flatfeetSI @aol.com Docket Number 2017-0122 Subject Order#37205 Docket#2017-0122 Position Support Comment I am writing in support of Hu Honua, also known as Honua Ola Bioenergy on the Big Island. This plant has the potential to represent a seif sustaining, closed loop fuel system in the form of wood chips vs imported oil for the Big Island of Hawaii. We also need to carefully balance jobs as new technology advances threaten to replace real jobs. Our Governor's mission statement includes Economy: Promote economic diversification and policies that support growth; Energy: Ensure a 100 percent renewable energy future in which we work together as a state, focusing on making solar and other technologies available for all; Agriculture: Double local food production by 2020; develop water and energy resources to support this effort. Provide loans for farmers and more land for agriculture. Honua Ola meets all of these milestones. LETS MOVE FORWARD!!
From: Ichelle Fukuhara Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 8:13 AM To: PUC Subject: [EXTERNAL] Support Honua Ola I am in support of this project please push it forward. Don't let them loose there jobs.
From: Chaz Pinnow < maiwaystreet@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 8:29 AM To: PUC.Comments Subject: Comments to Hawai'i PUC Web Site - 07/23/2020 Name Chaz Pinnow Address P.O Box 292 Papaikou State Hi Zip Code 96781 eMail Address maiwaystreet@yahoo.com Docket Number 2017-0122 Subject Order#37205 Docket#2017-0122 Position Support Comment I’m writing in support for docket #2017-0122. I've been an employee of Honua Ola for over 2 years now and a resident on the hamakua cost for 29 years now. I'm asking for you to reconsider your decision concerning the PPA agreement. Our community needs clean 24/7 firm sustainable energy and 200+ Jobs are on the line! Thank you
From: Joshua Genegabuas Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 8:45 AM To: PUC.Comments Subject: Comments to Hawai'i PUC Web Site - 07/23/2020 Name Joshua Genegabuas Address 15 Uluwai st State HI Zip Code 96720 eMail Address jgenegabuas3@gmail.com Docket Number 2017-0122 Subject Order#37205 Docket#2017-0122 Position Support Comment I am an employee of Honua Ola and I am in support of Honua Ola. We deserve a chance to be able to offer clean renewable and firm power to the grid. I believe solar is the future but not right now, the plant is 99% complete. I also believe we can coexist with solar, wind, and also geothermal. Please reconsider your decision as it affects 200+ jobs here on the big island. With the pandemic and unemployment at an all time high we need these jobs to keep the 'Vorking man" working. I urge you to really reconsider this decision as it also affects our keiki. Hawaii is our home too, we wouldn't deliberately destroy it! Mahalo for your time
From: Beth Owen Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 10:19 AM To: PUC Subject: [EXTERNAL] Honua Ola I am writing in support of Honua Ola. Do you know the origin of why there is opposition to HOB? About 10 households got their panties in a wad about a power plant starting up close to where they live. TEN! These people who claim they want renewable energy sufficiency, just not in their backyard. The way I see it, they built their houses in HOB's back yard. Theses 10 households made up of mostly mainlanders would rather have 200+ jobs be taken away from local people so that they can have their Hawaiian paradise. As if to say, "get back in your grass hut, put on your hula skirt, and serve me my mai tai." Then these people tell false truths to the sheep like Life of the Land or Malama Hamakua. These are the people who will follow blindly so long as you hug a tree. Life of the Land equals death to jobs, death to TMT, death to rocket launches, death to bottle companies, death to businesses, and death to economic growth. Are there any jobs these people won't go after? Do the right thing and allow Honua Ola to continue. You've done it twice before. Do it again and let these men and women do their job and support their families. Beth Owen
From: R M Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 10:26 AM To: PUC Subject: [EXTERNAL] Honua Ola Aloha, My name is Raesha Morett and along with my entire Ghana, we would like to say that We Support Honua Ola Bioenergy Wholeheartedly ! When I was a young girl my biological father left, leaving my mom to raise me and my two brothers on her own. A few years down the road, my mom met Rilan Ferreira. From that day forward, I began to realize what a real Dad was. Being able to grow up with that man raising us was the best thing that had happened ! He raised us to be independent and strong willed, teaching us how to live off the land while loving and respecting our land ! He was born and raised and the Big Island of Hawaii, doing it all, from diving, fishing, to hunting and planting so we could be self sufficient and one day teach it all to his children ! Me and my siblings were born and raised on the Big Island of Hawaii and our Dad Rilan raised us to love our land and he taught us why it was always so very important to learn how to be self sustaining and I know in my heart that he would never partake in ANYTHING that would harm this land or the people I I watched for years as that man put his blood, sweat, time and tears into every aspect of getting this power plant up and running because he believes in it with all he has and we all believe in what they are trying to accomplish with this plant I I ask you guys one thing, PUCI? Why!? Why are you trying to stop growth I? Why are trying shut down something that will give hundreds of locals the opportunities they need and for the future generations to come I? My heart hurts for all the parents who have to watch their children move far away, just because there isn't anything for them here in their home ! My heart hurts for all the children that need to leave to find opportunity elsewhere, because we aren't trying to create opportunities for them here in their hometowns ! Honua Ola is a way forward, it is our future, it is my children's future ! Don't be selfish and take that away from them Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
From: Joy Gardner Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 10:47 AM To: PUC.Comments Subject: [EXTERNAL] Hu Honua Dear Friends: As a resident of the Hamakua Coast, I was so relieved to hear about the recent PUC ruling. The threat to clean air and clean water, and the prospect of encountering a steady stream of lumber trucks along the highway was devastating. As an Airbnb owner, the harm that Hu Honua would do to healthy tourism has been of great concern to me. The prospect of paying twice as much for power than solar is ridiculous. The pure fiction that Hu Honua would be a good source of recycled energy is annoying at best. These trees will not and absolutely should not be replanted. That has never been part of the plan. In fact, the only saving grace of this project was that it would get rid of a crop of trees that should never have been planted in the first place. However, we can find much better and much less polluting uses for these trees. As human beings, indigenous people teach us that it is our responsibility to be Caretakers of the land and the water, for at least six generations to come. Thank you for helping in this sacred endeavor. Sincerely, Joy Gardner, Papaaloa
From: Jack Zimmerman Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 10:57 AM To: PUC.Comments Subject: [EXTERNAL] Ruling on Hu Honua I am so encouraged by your recent ruling concerning Hu Honua and would like to thank you for putting our community's needs and health above that of a commercial venture. I don't need to repeat the reasons for not supporting the creation of energy from burning trees. It is clearly ineffective and costly to the environment. Your ruling is so appropriate and clear. Mahalo hui Jack Zimmerman
From: Noel Morin gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 11:30 AM
To: PUC.Comments : PUC
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Thank you for your Hu Honua ruling
Aloha PUC members,
I'm writing to thank you for your ruling on the Hu Honua biomass plant. For several reasons, particularly the detrimental
impact that the project would have had on air and water quality and carbon emissions, this project would have been a
disaster for Hawaii Island's residents. The fact that the company's efforts would have resulted in energy prices that are
much higher than other clean alternatives makes it even more egregious.
Thank you for stepping up for consumers and the environment.
Noel Morin
Hilo Resident
Noel Morin
^ (808) 987-7428
^ noelgmorin@gmail.com
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