Moloka’i Dispatch is reporting that jobs from Big Wind on Moloka’i will only be about ten or twenty local jobs and that virtually all the jobs created will go to imported mainland workers.
Molokai Properties president and CEO Peter Nicholas reports that the State is talking about condemning his land to do the Big Wind project. Moloka’i Dispatch covers the Moloka’i Proerties situation in another article.
Disappeared News is also covering this.
Mike Bond of I Moloka’i Aloha wrote an article for Pacific Business News
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Riverstone Holdings came up in another context. An investigative blogger was looking into the groups behind Ku`oko`a, the group seeking to buy HEI. They had difficulty pinning down who the hidden partners were. Riverstone Holdings was a possibility.
This could be worth following up.
I Aloha Moloka'i
Apparently the major partner in Pattern’s ownership is Lord John Browne, former chairman of BP and considered responsible, because of his cutting of safety measures, for both the Gulf of Mexico spill and the Texas Refinery explosion.
What I was told: Pattern Energy was formed when Riverstone Holdings LLC and the management team of Babcock & Brown’s North American Energy Group purchased the wind development portfolio from Babcock & Brown LP to form Pattern Energy Group LP. As the major stakeholder in Pattern, one must look at the partners and management team of Riverstone Holdings. First name on the list of “partners” is Lord John Browne (of BP fame….). Anyone looking to partner with these folks needs to thoroughly research exactly who they are and who is controlling or driving them.
We googled Browne and it appears all true. It’s worth looking at. Do we really want a company like this working in Hawaii?