The program that relocated residents from near the Puna Geothermal Venture power plant and provided millions of dollars in benefits for the Puna community at large is now being spent entirely on relocations.
That is despite the fact that all but one of the owners of the homes now under consideration for county purchase acquired their properties after the plant’s construction in 1989 — despite the program’s stated priority for homes already in place when PGV was built.
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We now examine how the sudden surge in relocation requests may have happened, and whether there is any end in sight to the relocation program itself.
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