Interesting....I went to school with her, lived in lower Puna since the day I was born, this is all true:

“We don’t have access to clean and safe water, we have no wastewater sewage treatment in all of Puna in terms of commercially zoned land, we don’t have an infrastructure for basic business development, and there is not adequate internet and cell phone service,”

...But the community is and always has been, dominated by a fervent NIMBY brigade, the vocal minority has and will continue to rally against any and all infrastructure upgrades, what microscopic amount the state and county have been willing to do.

The Pahoa unwashed like it the way it is & Shipman is a huge opponent of progress on the Keaau side, the State is a combo of unwilling and unable to even erect a single stoplight no matter how many people die at a certain intersection (shower/130 abandoned project).

Three elements, the anti-everything transplant community, the old plantation bosses & the inept gov