Chidiac Returns to Big Island Haunts In June and July 1991, Environment Hawai`i reported on the Hawaiian Riviera Resort, a large, luxury tourist development proposed for the Ka`u District of the Big Island by Charles Chidiac. Here is what has … Continued
The state Department of Agriculture is working diligently, once again, toward the goal of building a fruit irradiation facility in Hawai`i. This time, the facility would be sited not on the Big Island — which was the intended site when … Continued
In 1986, the Food and Drug Administration issued regulations approving irradiation of foods as a treatment that would not put public health at undue risk of harm. Because irradiation resulted in the presence of chemicals in foods that do not … Continued
On April 13, 1995, the state Board of Land and Natural Resources awarded a lease of almost 10 acres of land to Maurice M. “Mutts” Matsuzaki and his wife, Winona. Until this year, Matsuzaki had been chief of the Department … Continued
The Board of Land and Natural Resources almost always puts into its leases of state property a clause that requires the board to approve the transfer of any lease from one party to another. In the case of Harbor Lease … Continued
The state Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation, an arm of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, is charged with keeping the records of what is owed to the state by tenants at the state’s small boat harbors. Tenants … Continued
The state Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation informed the Board of Land and Natural Resources on April 13, 1995, that for about three years, it had failed to collect rents owed by a tenant at Honokohau Harbor, on the … Continued
Manele Pavilion Breaks Faith With Lanaians, Harbor Group Says Claiming that the State’s Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation, a branch of the Depart–ment of Land and Natural Resources, has broken faith with them, members of the Manele Harbor Advisory … Continued
In February 1994, the federal government put in place a program to monitor the fleet of some 125 longline vessels operating out of Hawai`i ports so that scientists might better understand how sea turtles, protected under the Endangered Species Act, … Continued