Cutting Sugar Cane on the Gay & Robinson campus
In response to community concerns over the harmful environmental impact of burning coal, Pacific West Energy President William Maloney told a leading local group advocating energy independence that cleaner power sources will be used instead.
“I am pleased to inform you and Apollo Kaua‘i (a local environmental citizen's group) that our collective boards of directors have reviewed the coal issue and we have made the decision that coal will not be part of our business model, as either a primary or supplemental fuel for the ethanol plant or power generation,” Maloney stated in a letter to Apollo Kaua‘i Chair Ben Sullivan. “We have heard your organization, and others’ voices as well, including our own senior management and directors, and we have concluded that coal has no place in our green energy business.” Apollo Kauai is one of several sustainability groups on Kauai, and a big proponent of greening the island and Kauai.
Construction for the plant is expected to begin by late-December or early-January and be operational by the second quarter of 2009, Kennett said.
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what a great post! I am so pleased that thinking eco-friendly is becoming mainstream!!!
Well, I'm not sure that I would go and call in mainstream, however, on the islands, our eco-systems are really quite fragile. And, given the small population of Kauai, under 64,000, there is a pretty broad awareness of our resources. I work with our local rotary club, The Rotary Club of Kapa`a and we produce one of the island's finest events, called the Taste of Hawaii. We use all recycable trays, plates and utensils, and have done so for the last couple of years. Check us out at http://www.tasteofhawaii.com
Ronnie-- Congratulations! Florida has been fighting expansion to existing and new coal powered plants over the past 12 months and so far has defeated one of each....Even with all of the current best technology available, it is still on of the dirtiest ways to produce energy around....so you guys pat yourselves and the companies involved on the back and keep this effort going!
I've been to your lovely state once - other than flying through... and it is too precious to waste on coal....
I didn't realize they still grew sugar on Kauia too. I thought it was only Maui. It will be interesting to see what comes next.
Are they going to power it with the ethanol they create? I would have assumed they would.
I'm not sure of the overall technology implementation. Alan Kennett, president of G & R, spoke at our Rotary Club meeting back in October and he was quite excited about this total paradigm shift. Alan said that we used to have 8 large sugar producers in the state and now there are only two, one on Maui and Gay and Robinson on Kauai. Alan said that the prognosis for burning sugar was way better than burning corn which is how a lot of the current alternative fuel is produced. Sugar is way more efficient. we'll have to wait and see. Hopefully long term, our entire state will be very forward thinking about all the sustainability issues.
Ronnie, I'm glad to hear they won't be using coal, that doesn't make any sense. Hopefully they will use local materials, that should be less expensive.
Ronnie~
North Carolina weighed in by keeping a coal-fired plant out of WNC...we are looking at ways to remedy the peak energy need.. . .I will be interested to hear more about how your story unfolds.
JaneAnne,
When the president of Gay and Robinson presented to our Rotary Club, he stated that coal is much cleaner than oil for creating electricity. Of course, there is a lot of technology that goes on the back end of their systems to reduce the pollution as much as possible. However, I believe the Gay and Robinson's sense of proper green planning, and community pressure, made them think otherwise.