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Mayors Race Erupts on Big Island Over Geothermal (Honolulu Civil Beat)

Billy Kenoi 

(Courtesy Honolulu Civil Beat)

Harry Kim says he was looking forward to the quiet life — retiring and being a grandfather. The two-time Big Island mayor had left the county in the hands of his protege, Billy Kenoi.

But a renewed push to construct power plants along volcanic rifts brought the 72-year-old out of retirement.

"I'm in support of the development of geothermal," Kim told Civil Beat. "But it must be right from the position of the people and the environment."

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