• The Plantation’s done deal • KIUC board directors represent the people • Godbehere’s 15 minutes The Plantation’s done deal Plantation KIUC’s decision to issue a Power Purchase Agreement to Green Energy Team, LLC is truly a ludicrous decision “meriting
• The Plantation’s done deal • KIUC board directors represent the people • Godbehere’s 15 minutes
The Plantation’s done deal
Plantation KIUC’s decision to issue a Power Purchase Agreement to Green Energy Team, LLC is truly a ludicrous decision “meriting derisive laughter or scorn as absurdly inept, false or foolish.” (Webster’s definition)
Unfortunately, the only parties laughing at KIUC’s “inept, false or foolish” decision happens to be Green Energy Team, LLC —Steve Case/Grove Farm along with the German Deutsch Bank and the German firm building (exporting jobs) the 6.7 megawatts per hour, wood-chip burning, generating plant that will burn Grove Farm’s wood chips made from Grove Farm’s trees.
If readers will recall, one of the main reasons inept KIUC and the County of Kaua‘i agreed to purchase Kaua’i Electric from Citizens Utility was that the dollars generated from selling electricity would remain on Kaua’i. Now it appears to be headed to German financiers and manufacturers. So much for that falsehood !
Plantation KIUC’s ridiculously foolish decision to buy any generating plant to burn wood chips for $90 million ($13.4 million per mwh) when an alternative plant/technology can be purchased for nearly one-third of the cost (about $4.5 million per mwh) that will also generate 30 mwh of electricity (450 percent time more electricity) while at the same time incinerate approximately 80 to 90 percent of Kauai’s daily garbage only goes to proves this author’s premise.
Doesn’t lower electric bills and a majority resolution to Kauai’s garbage/waste dilemma sound like a better deal? Where is KIUC’s common sense?
How do you, KIUC members, wish your money to be spent? Would you like to ship it off to Germany or keep it in America? Is it time for a petition to be signed and delivered to KIUC as well as to RUS, the National Co-operative Association, which we members belong to?
Don’t only think about it; do something about it!
It’s time for unreflective multitudes to begin reflecting and acting!
Aloha.
John Hoff
Lawa‘i
KIUC board directors represent the people
Thank you KIUC Board Director Jan TenBruggencate for your letter April 7 clarifying the misinformation contained in Mr. Walter Lewis’ column April 5. I had started a response to that column but before I could satisfy myself with several re-written versions, your letter, which I agree with completely, appeared in The Garden Island.
Had I known that Mr. Lewis had chosen not to be a KIUC member, I would have had to re-write my response again and dwell upon my oft repeated remedy of “confidence and trust” in those whom citizens or members elect into office — nationally, statewide, county or KIUC.
Three incumbents were recently re-elected to the KIUC Board of Directors, despite the opportunity of the members to vote out of office anyone whom they believed did not or will not fulfill their duties and responsibilities as promised by them in taking their oath of office.
They may not always agree with your point of view, but there is always another election coming up.
The KIUC board directors live and mingle with other members on this island community.
While Mr. Lewis believes that KIUC may “abuse its power” with harmful effects to the members and the people of Kaua‘i, I personally cannot envision five members of the current or future boards, with advice of counsel (present or available at all times) to form a majority to exercise an abuse of its powers.
Alfred Laureta
Kapa‘a
Godbehere’s 15 minutes
Douglas Henry replied to my letter about Mr. Godbehere being arrested for posting a video of himself drinking and driving.
I never said I condone drunken driving. Everyone knows drunken driving is a serious offense; I feel it’s despicable. My point is that no court of law will ever convict someone just from a staged video — you cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Godbehere was drinking alcohol
How can you prove it’s not cream soda or one of the thousands of soft drinks on the market? Sure, it was in a beer bottle but how can you prove he did not empty the bottle and filled it with something else?
My point was this will be nearly impossible to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.
This story and video have gone viral with social media around the world. If Godbehere is convicted, which is highly unlikely, I believe this case will go down in history similar to Roe- Wade and be taught in law school’s around the world.
Win, lose or draw, Godbehere achieved his 15 minutes of fame and preserved rock-star status in cyber space and social media for years to come.
James “Kimo” Rosen
Kapa‘a
