How often are nuclear submarines defueled at the Pearl Harbor shipyard? According to Navy spokeswoman Annette Campbell, about one submarine per year is defueled. How often are they refueled? Actually, since June 1984, the Navy hasn’t done any refuelings at … Continued
The State Ethics Commission has taken an interest in the activities of Thomas B. Hayward. As an independent contractor to the Office of Space Industry, Hayward is exempt from state ethics rules that might restrict his outside employment (such as … Continued
To grow or not to grow? That question is at the heart of a dispute sparked by proposals from the state Department of Transportation to expand the runway and make other alterations to the state-owned airport at Kahului, Maui. Many … Continued
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