I suspect there are a few Billionares willing to let a great portion of that area to "re-wild".Make the people leave, then let the resorts in so they can build ritzy vacation getaways. If any locals are left, they can be maids and cooks for the resorts.
Modern day socialism at its best
Rahm Emanual quote.Circumstances are manipulating the crisis after-the-fact.
The EPA is running the show there in Hawaii along with Fema. Therefore the silica content of the lava may prevent disturbing it.Cut and stack blocks of lava (won't burn). Make a stone city
yes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . silicaThe EPA is running the show there in Hawaii along with Fema. Therefore the silica content of the lava may prevent disturbing it.
If you watched the video the firefighter described cleanup crews in tyvek suits doing cleanup.
Cleanup of a burnt home individually is done by homeowners or contractors every day across this nation.
At what point are we denied the right to use our land here on CONUS after a fire?
If I was a lawyer, I would argue the comprehensive plan in Maui was arbitrary and capricious against individual owners. Why should they be grouped and denied use and quiet ownership of their individual holdings?
Coming to a fire scene near you...
I catch your sarcasm in each dot. We have an eye roll emoji too.yes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . silica
The main excuse for the delays is that the land is "too contaminated" for modern living, even though people have lived there for 100 years or more. The old "mining" supposedly contaminated the area, as did the fire. No one is waiting in the wings to "decontaminate" things. I am sure similar excuses will be used in Lahina.
The word is “corporatocracy.”This seems to be a new "public-corporate" strategy.
This is similar to what is happening long-term in Paradise, California. Many may remember that my mentor lost everything in that fire and barely made it out alive. Like many landowners in Paradise, he was forced to buy a small place in nearby Chico when it was apparent that Paradise would take a long time to rebuild.
A few months ago, he told me that building permits are not issued, and people are not legally allowed to bring in prefab housing or trailers (like the one he lived in that burned down) due to "infrastructure issues." Most of those are water hook-ups, which they still force the exiles to pay for even if no water hook-ups have been installed.
He said that after several years of that, they are now "deeming" people as "no longer coming back" and trying various ways to ensure that they don't.
As of a few months ago, 350 of the several thousand people who used to live there have been able to move back. Some defy local authorities by camping in RVs and other temporary shelters on their land.
The main excuse for the delays is that the land is "too contaminated" for modern living, even though people have lived there for 100 years or more. The old "mining" supposedly contaminated the area, as did the fire. No one is waiting in the wings to "decontaminate" things. I am sure similar excuses will be used in Lahina.
In both places, significant corporations and big money have reasons to want the area depopulated of "the peasants" so they can build either seafront properties and resorts or luxury mountain condos and perhaps re-open the old silver mine (as prices for silver increase).
This seems to be a new "public-corporate" strategy. I am not saying that all these fires are created to order (they might be). Still, even if they are not, there is now a pattern of trying to take over areas that have been destroyed like this, make sure the original population is disposed of (on the cheap), and rebuild something that brings them financial benefits.
Areas they don't care about, like South Mississippi (away from the coast) after Katrina, are happy to restrict benefits and let them slowly rot away. "They" can always pick the land up later on the cheap when the area has mainly become depopulated.
Maybe possibly perhaps because on Oahu there was a large jet fuel leak that affected ALL Pearl water usage that the Navy initially denied? and also affected Honolulu water supply . . . . .hmmm? just a ponderI catch your sarcasm in each dot. We have an eye roll emoji too.
Has anyone read exactly why those homes and that fire created such a hazardous wasteland?
Why aren't the California wildfires just as dangerous?
I don't know for sure that cutting lava blocks would be considered hazardous by the government. I pulled the silica as one of many possibilities that the government might use.
The detection methods available today and the ever more stringent regulations make most anything hazardous if the government looks.
Notice the difference between a law and regulation.
Those people in Maui have clearly been shafted imo. Better for everyone to ask WHY now.
RedHill fuel storage on Oahu is a long way from Maui.just a ponder
new clean location to build a base onRedHill fuel storage on Oahu is a long way from Maui.
Lotsa water between the 2 islands.
new clean location to build a base on
I hear you.Naw. I can't foresee the current admin nor military leaders interested in storing even one gallon of essential fuel.
I have zero faith in them but willing to change my mind.
Makes it hard to set up and enforce a "15 minute city."If I was a lawyer, I would argue the comprehensive plan in Maui was arbitrary and capricious against individual owners. Why should they be grouped and denied use and quiet ownership of their individual holdings?