Thursday, August 2, 2012

USA, Hawaii:

Hawaii  Council Fails To Override Three Kenoi Vetoes ( Big Island Now.com)

Hawaii County Council Chairman Dominic Yagong today failed to muster enough votes to override mayoral vetoes of three bills, including two that were geothermal-related.

Bill 257, which called for development of emergency response and evacuation plans for the lower Puna area where Puna Geothermal Venture is located, was the first to come up for reconsideration. The bill approved in June on a 7-2 vote was vetoed by Kenoi because he said such plans were already in place.

The votes came after 99 people presented nearly eight hours of testimony, nearly all of it on the geothermal bills.