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Article: Wind-power firm vows $50M for Molokai bid
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
- Article date:
- November 8, 2007
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face=+Bold; Molokai Ranch insists it isn't for sale, but activists feel otherwiseface=-Bold;
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face=+Bold; UPC Windface=-Bold; , a Massachusetts wind-power company that built Hawaii's largest wind farm, has pledged $50 million to a campaign that aims to buy lands from Molokai Ranch.
Eventually, UPC Wind hopes to build a wind farm on Molokai that would supply power to Oahu via an undersea cable.
The problem is that the lands -- more than 65,000 acres, are not for sale, according to the president and CEO of face=+Bold; Molokai Properties Ltd.face=-Bold; He says the company is moving forward with its master plan based on several years of community input.
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