Olson Calls Hawaii’s Oil Dependency Ridiculous
Hawaii Business magazine has a profile piece on Edmund Olson, one of Hawaii’s top 20 private landowners. Olson owns the land slated for Aina Koa Pono’s biofuel project in the Kau region of the Big Island which has sparked local protest.
He would own 25 percent of the biomass plant and told the magazine this in regard to project opponents:
“There’s quite a lot of the local population that doesn’t want things to change, but the world is changing, and being tied to the Arabs for our oil is ridiculous,” Olson says.
Read the full story here.
