The Department of Transportation has got religion — and a peculiar one it is, at that. We’re not talking about any orthodox faith here. It’s not shared by the traditional advocates of the tourism industry, whose high priests and bishops … Continued
On October 25, 1987, the Department of Transportation entered into Contract No. 23085 with Belt Collins & Associates. Belt Collins was to prepare a noise compatibility program and undertake a number of other related tasks, in return for which the … Continued
The draft environmental impact statement prepared by the state Department of Transportation for various developments in and around the Kahului airport was not undertaken gladly by the DOT. In 1988, the DOT had published a Kahului Airport Development Plan, in … Continued
The citizens of Maui responded in great number to the Department of Transportation’s proposal to expand Kahului airport and to the Maui County Council’s proposal, eventually adopted, to include a curb on airport growth in the county General Plan Update. … Continued
In 1985, the federal government gave money to the Department of Transportation’s airports division to undertake a study of noise related to operation of the Kahului airport on Maui. The study was to lead to preparation of noise exposure maps … Continued
I am in receipt of a fax of your January 1992 “so called publication”. First, you “twisted” the Brash application, and now the Grobes. I’m now totally convinced. You wouldn’t recognize the truth, if it jumped up and “bit you … Continued
Puna Geothermal Venture has built a power plant in the Puna district of the Big Island. The plant is supposed to feed into the island’s electrical grid up to 25 megawatts of power generated by tapping geothermal steam from wells … Continued
Is geothermal energy ever going to work in Hawai`i? Given the so-far failed efforts to harness this resource, the question is long overdue. Still, however, it is off-limits in the orbits of most state and county officials. A chorus of … Continued
To many of the people living near the Puna Geothermal Venture power plant at Pohoiki, their neighbor is more than a noisy, foul-smelling nuisance: it is a threat to their very health and welfare. But not everyone concedes that a … Continued
Last spring, Wilson Goddard, a California-based engineer with more than two decades of experience in the field of geothermal energy development, prepared answers to several frequently asked questions about geothermal energy in general and Puna Geothermal Venture’s operations in particular. … Continued