Debate Flares Anew as State Releases EIS for Maui Airport The state Department of Transportation has released its final environmental impact statement on its proposal to expand the Maui airport runway to 9,600 feet (from the existing 7,000) and build … Continued
Puna Geothermal Venture, developer of the geothermal plant at Pohoiki, in the Big Island district of Puna, is a partnership made up of OESI Power Corporation and Constellation Investment, Inc., a subsidiary of Baltimore Gas & Electric Company. OESI (formerly … Continued
Deep in the ground, thousands of feet below the Earth’s surface, geothermal fluids pose no threat to human health or the environment. Raise them to the surface, though, and shielding the public from their toxic qualities becomes a problem. To … Continued
Last spring, Wilson Goddard, a California-based engineer with more than two decades of experience in the field of geothermal energy development, prepared answers to several frequently asked questions about geothermal energy in general and Puna Geothermal Venture’s operations in particular. … Continued
To many of the people living near the Puna Geothermal Venture power plant at Pohoiki, their neighbor is more than a noisy, foul-smelling nuisance: it is a threat to their very health and welfare. But not everyone concedes that a … Continued
Is geothermal energy ever going to work in Hawai`i? Given the so-far failed efforts to harness this resource, the question is long overdue. Still, however, it is off-limits in the orbits of most state and county officials. A chorus of … Continued
Puna Geothermal Venture has built a power plant in the Puna district of the Big Island. The plant is supposed to feed into the island’s electrical grid up to 25 megawatts of power generated by tapping geothermal steam from wells … Continued