Please participate in Mayor Alameda's SURVEY

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TB78L7S

Deadline
July 30th, 2025

This survey should take five to ten minutes to complete.

All responses are anonymous; no personally identifiable information will be collected or shared.

CONCERNS
MOUs - ICE/HSI raids
No to Exploration and Expansion of Geothermal Activities (lawsuits in NZ)
NO - Malama One
Support Resolution 234-25 (Pōhakuloa)

Please incorporate your own experiences, concerns, and wording.


HPD / ICE / HSI concerns
Our Police Chief, Mayor, and County Council members must draft, agree, and pass a county council resolution requesting the Mayor and the Hawai'i Police Department to;

- Terminate the MOUs with I.C.E./H.S.I. 

- Do not enter into a 287(g) agreement with our federal government

- Hawai'i Police Department should NEVER be masked and always wear full uniform while on duty and identify themselves properly, unless under actual undercover criminal operations (no ICE raids).

ICE/HSI should not collaborate with our local law enforcement agencies.  Our residents need to know our police are here to protect us and not cooperate with the federal government, which is illegally detaining American Citizens and non-criminal residents here in Hawai’i. We are asking our Mayor to stand for and with our people.
Under the Trump Administration, Whitehouse Chief of Staff Stephen Miller ordered ICE/CBP to arrest 3,000 people a day without regard to immigration or criminal status.

Collaboration between our local law enforcement (MOUs & 287gs) with the federal government is an act of terror.

No to Exploration and Expansion of Geothermal Activities:

It is not wise to make decisions without fully understanding the environmental impact when the people of Puna have been physically impacted through health concerns that were ignored while living near the Puna Geothermal plant.  Also, our native Aotearoa ‘Ohana and Greenpeace New Zealand Incorporated have filed multiple lawsuits in which this same current group in Hawaii has been involved in giving false information.  This should be understood and brought forward in Hawai’i.  Also, it is worth noting that our leadership cannot use Aotearoa and the Azores as examples, as the physical land differs in material layers and is millions of years older than our island.  We live on the youngest island, which is more porous and significantly lacks the slowing of our natural filtration system.  Meaning anything we do on the surface goes into our drinking water and ocean within a matter of hours, days, or a few weeks. Scientific data from Arizona State University/Greg Asner reveals the impact on land-to-water transitions.

NOAA Fisheries: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/coral-reefs-benefit-reduced-land-sea-impacts-under-ocean-warming

Lawsuits for Geothermal in Aotearoa

In the Māori Land Court of New Zealand Waiariki District

Greenpeace in the Supreme Court of New Zealand

https://www.hawaiifreepress.com/Articles-Main/ID/45868/Fraud-and-Misrepresentation-IDG-Geothermal-Schemers-Get-Cold-Reception-from-Hawaii-County-Council

https://www.hawaiifreepress.com/Articles-Main/ID/43333/We-Were-Scammed-NZ-Lawsuits-Expose-fraudulent-Hawaii-Geothermal-Developer

NO - Malama One

I am deeply concerned about the Mālama One plastic processing factory already grubbing land in Shipman Industrial, Hilo. While marketed as a “state-of-the-art recycling facility,” this project poses significant risks to our community and ʻāina.

Hawaiʻi’s regulations lag far behind scientific understanding of micro- and nanoplastics, which pollute our air, water, soil, and bodies. Shockingly, this facility appears to be moving forward without critical oversight—no solid waste permits, environmental review, or plans for long-term monitoring.

At full capacity, Mālama One would import 1 million pounds of plastic every week. Similar facilities lose up to 30% of material during processing, potentially dumping 300,000 pounds of plastic sludge per week into our overburdened landfill. Recycling plastic is no climate solution—melting and reforming releases toxic particles and worsens global plastic pollution.

Even more troubling, Mālama One leaders claim the facility will be “zero waste.” This is scientifically impossible. No such facility exists without byproducts, emissions, or residual waste, and there are no clear plans for independent oversight once it operates.

At the very least, the County should require a bond or other financial assurance to guarantee that if (and when) something goes wrong—whether pollution, equipment failure, or site decommissioning—we are not left holding the bag, and there are already funds and plans in place to handle the fallout.

We cannot allow greenwashing to justify a project that threatens our ʻāina, our water, and our future. The same CEO behind Mālama One also runs Waiākea Water, a company that profits by extracting and exporting our aquifer drinking water off-island. This alone should raise serious questions about trust and priorities.

I urge you to halt this project until it undergoes thorough regulatory scrutiny, public input, and environmental review based on current scientific knowledge. Our communities and ecosystems cannot bear the cost of another industry making promises it cannot keep.  Please put our communities and ʻāina first.

Support Resolution 234-25 (Pōhakuloa)

The Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) in Hawaii utilizes Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) to assess the potential cultural and environmental consequences of proposed projects.  We are grateful that BLNR recognizes the impending cultural, ecological, and environmental impacts and has denied the U.S. Army’s final Environmental Impact Study as of May 2025. 

We ask Mayor Alameda to continue listening to the people of Hawai’i and Support Resolution 234-25 to ensure the health and safety of Hawai'i Island residents by requesting the military cease all fire and bombing practice, and further contamination and destruction of the landscape and soil/air quality in the Pōhakuloa Training Area, rejecting land swaps and lease renewals with the military unless specific stipulations are established, with the U.S. Military adhering to our Hawai'i State Constitution and motto through the Ka Pa'akai Analysis on the area.

* Amendments are still being made as of 7/22/25, and we know that the U.S. Army is directing this concern to Governor Josh Green at this time to make a deal.

SUPPORT Res 234-25;

URGES THE STATE OF HAWAI‘I TO ENSURE THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF HAWAI‘I ISLAND RESIDENTS BY REQUESTING THE MILITARY TO CEASE ALL BOMBING AND DESECRATION ACTIVITIES AT THE PŌHAKULOA TRAINING AREA, REJECTING LAND SWAPS AND LEASE RENEWALS WITH THE MILITARY UNLESS CERTAIN STIPULATIONS ARE ESTABLISHED, AND CONDUCTING A KA PA‘AKAI ANALYSIS ON THE AREA