Stolen puppy returned to shelter, 5 dogs still missing ADVERTISING Stolen puppy returned to shelter, 5 dogs still missing LIHUE, Kauai (AP) — A Kauai animal shelter is welcoming back one of six dogs that was stolen from the facility
Stolen puppy returned to shelter, 5 dogs still missing
LIHUE, Kauai (AP) — A Kauai animal shelter is welcoming back one of six dogs that was stolen from the facility after the animal was found wandering along a highway.
Matthew Richardson, field services manager with the Kauai Humane Society, said the 2-month-old Labrador-mix named Arianna was found and returned Wednesday by a group of teens who spotted it along the roadway in Kekaha.
“They called and possibly suspected it was one of the dogs taken,” Richardson said. “We scanned it and cleaned it and it was confirmed that it was one of the puppies taken.”
Officials at the shelter say Arianna and the other five dogs were taken when someone broke in by cutting a lock on a gate and climbing through a window during the night of May 14 or early morning of May 15.
“We came in Sunday morning and the dogs were gone,” said Penny Cistaro, executive director of KHS. She said she thinks four of the animals were targeted because they recently were picked up and had no tags or chips.
The Humane Society is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect or suspects involved in the incident.
Richardson and Cistaro are urging the public to be on the lookout for the other stolen dogs. They are three female pit bull mixes, ranging from 2-7 years old, and two female Airedales that are 2 and 5 years old.
Fewer but taller turbines eyed for Kahuku wind farm
HONOLULU (AP) — The developer of a proposed wind farm on Oahu unveiled a new plan for the project that calls for fewer, but taller turbines.
The latest proposal by Na Pua Makani Power Partners was released Thursday during an open house.
The company initially planned for 10 turbines on the wind farm in Kahuku, but it now says it will be able to produce the same amount of energy with eight. In order to do that, the company is looking to raise the turbines’ height from 512 feet to 656 feet.
“That’s the tallest potential turbine we could apply, and we haven’t made that selection, so they could be shorter than that,” said Michael Cutbirth, president and CEO of Na Pua Makani.
Opponents of the project say the taller turbines will be too much of an obstruction, noting they would surpass the height of the state’s tallest building, the 429-foot-tall First Hawaiian Bank Building.
“The bigger the turbine, the more megawatts they can produce, too,” said Kent Fonoimoana of the Kahuku Community Association. “So there’s benefits on their side. But on our side, the bigger the turbines, the less sleep maybe somebody’s gonna get.”
Supporters of Na Pua Makani’s proposal are in favor of having fewer energy-producing towers.
“It may take away some of the turbines, so they’ll make the same amount of power but there’ll be lesser turbines, so we’ll see lesser turbines,” said Kahuku resident Melissa Primacio, “Not only that, but gradually with technology, everything gets bigger and better.”
The original plans of the project were brought forward three years ago, and it will still take some time before construction can begin. One of the next steps is having officials review the project’s new environmental impact statement.
