• Development will happen • Power production questions • People should take stand for auditor • Kudos to pilot Development will happen In response to John Brekke letter “please save Hanalei ridge” (TGI, Friday, Dec. 13), Mr. Brekke displays what
• Development will happen • Power production questions • People should take stand for auditor • Kudos to pilot
Development will happen
In response to John Brekke letter “please save Hanalei ridge” (TGI, Friday, Dec. 13), Mr. Brekke displays what I consider to be the typical Kauai style scenario of lynch-mob tactics.
Mr. Brekke, you should contact Gary Hooser for help. Just look at what he has accomplished in a short time.
The seed companies have more money than Mr. Omidyar, yet Mr. Hooser has them right where he wants them and now he pulled off the best trick by overturning the mayor’s veto! I’m confident he’s your man.
Mr. Brekke, you’re right, Mr. Omidyar has lots of funding available to him and I’m sure a well organized legal team and project management to guide him through the hoops and red tape he will be faced with.
I know from experience that lynch-mob tactics waste lots of money and valuable time.
The only people who win are the lawyers.
When will people learn this? Mr. Brekke and others who tend to agree with his opinions on this should realize that a lot more can be achieved by reaching out for a win-win situation. My-way-or-the-highway, lynch-mob tactics are not what’s needed.
Development is going to happen whether people like it or not. It is far better to have a solution or good input on how it physically gets built rather than what could of been built.
I submitted my design idea to the developer expressing what I would rather see. Google search www.haleponokauai.com
Steve Martin
Kapaa
Power production questions
The above subject refers to the first article of KIUC’s recent December issue of Currents, “A great day for Kauai.”
The second paragraph on page four states that when completed, the new Koloa solar facility will produce 12-megawatts of electricity or about 5 percent of Kauai’s power.
Supposedly, enough to provide electricity to 4,000 homes.
The second paragraph on page five states that two smaller systems, one in Kapaa and the other in Omao are providing power to the grid along with the one at Port Allen.
Then, in the fourth paragraph on the same page, it is stated that when the fourth (Koloa) facility is completed, together all four utility-scale solar arrays will generate 19 megawatts during the day — enough power to meet nearly 30 percent of Kauai’s daytime electrical demand.
I’m not a mathematician, but if 12 MW can produce 5 percent of Kauai’s power, I cannot understand how only 19 MW can produce 30 percent of Kauai’s daytime needs. I should think that 19 MW would produce only about 8 percent of our demand.
William Null
Kapaa
People should take stand for auditor
The “A Better Kauai” article by Walter Lewis in the Dec. 6 edition of TGI about our county auditor, Ernie Pasion was certainly well done.
And, the headline story in TGI (Dec.10) “Auditor sues County” goes into accurate detail about the conspiracy to dismiss our auditor from his job.
A concerned group of citizens who strongly support Mr. Pasion have filled our Council Chambers before two of the 20 executive sessions testifying against any claim that Ernie has not done the job he was hired to do four years ago.
In fact, an independent external review by the Association of Local Government Auditors found our auditor had “excelled” at the six audits he did, verifying how competently he and his staff did their jobs.
Mr. Pasion did these audits according to his “yellow book,” his book of guidance for performing his work.
He knew of no illegalities or irregularities before the audits were done but simply did them hoping to put more efficiency in the system saving taxpayers a lot of money.
However one of the audits regarding the mayor’s use of county fuel in a privately owned vehicle pointed the finger at someone in authority and thus someone’s head had to roll — the auditor’s, of course.
Hopefully there will be a groundswell of people taking resentment and action against anyone who tries to fire our auditor by remembering that person at voting time.
Not only is this a huge injustice to a very dedicated man who has done his job, but it is a red flag for any honest person who wants to enter our government but is afraid to do so because testifying against wrongdoing can only lead to dismissal.
Ken Taylor
Kapaa
Kudos to pilot
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity and Clyde Kawasaki, the pilot on Molokai, exemplified this. Divine forces, whatever you want to call it, were at work here to have Clyde fly that Cessna Caravan out of Kalaupapa.
Water landings are not easy and he aced it. An inexperienced pilot might not have been able to maneuver that plane so effortlessly on the water.
As a seasoned pilot, I take my hat off to Clyde.
He definitely deserves the pilot of the decade award.
Cliff Waeschle
Beverly Hills, Calif.
