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Posted: Friday, November 2nd, 2012 9:06 AM HST
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Goethermal Plant makes moves to reduce noise
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HILO, Hawaii (AP) — The company operating a geothermal plant on the Big Island is taking steps to reduce noise. An official with Ormat Technologies, the company operating Puna Geothermal Venture, says it will install more sound barriers the next time a well is
constructed. Ormat's Paul Thomsen says a muffler will also be placed around a truck-mounted drill to be used for well maintenance next month. The noise reduction measures come after neighbors complained that 24-hour-a-day drilling from March through July was keeping them awake. A public hearing will be held this evening at 5:30 p.m. in the Pahoa Neighborhood Facility on a bill before the County Council that would prohibit geothermal drilling at night.
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