USA, Hawaii :

Mayor of Big Island Asks for EA on Old Geothermal Site (West Hawaii Today)

A game of bureaucratic pingpong has Hawaii Island Mayor Billy Kenoi taking matters into his own hands and asking for an Environmental Assessment of an old Puna geothermal energy site leased by the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA).

Kenoi has been corresponding with NELHA, the state Department of Land and Natural Resources and the state Department of Health following a Sept. 9 report by the Geothermal Public Health Assessment Study Group. The report recommends the county “use the full strength of its influence with state and federal agencies and private landowners” to ensure the old HGP-A site, Hawaii Geothermal Project’s initial test plant, is free of contaminants.

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