...cultural importance ~ identified 294 cultural features, such as ceremonial sites, petroglyphs, heiau and burial locations. The ahupuaa also serves an important community purpose, providing food to local subsistence hunters and fishers. Kaa Ahupuaa (Lanai) the landscape of the 20,000-acre Kaa Ahupuaa on the west side of Lanai is unspoiled and mostly uncharted, with little known about the cultural sites that pepper the area. In 2008, landowner Castle & Cooke Resorts LLC was permitted to build a 170-turbine, 400-megawatt wind farm in the ahupuaa. Community group Friends of Lanai is against the project. “It is irreparable damage to such a beautiful place ...the construction of the turbines, roads and power facilities would significantly alter the landscape, and all of the power generated would go to Oahu. The only benefit to Lanai would be a handful of permanent jobs ~ back then, Harry Saunders, executive vice president of Castle & Cooke, says that, as of now, the revised proposal is to build a 200-megawatt wind farm with a 6,000-acre, 56-turbine array. In 2009, after public input, the Public Utilities Commission decided to reexamine the project and separate the wind farm from the undersea cable that would shuttle the energy from Lanai to Oahu, which started the whole EIS [Environmental Impact Statement] process again for the Lanai wind project. persistent the alien enclaves ~ there are still opportunities to strike a balance between the competing interests of historic preservation and sourcing alternative energy, though it doesn’t seem that the project will be stopped altogether ~ our bitter, sweet travesty to preserve our native hawaiian lands and our sovereign state.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 19:28:33 +0000
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