For the last 14 years, public officials in Hawai`i have talked a lot about controlling boating activity on Kaua`i’s North Shore. They have drawn up plans for regulating boaters through bids and concessions. They have jawed on about carrying capacities … Continued
More than anyone else, Clancy Greff has set the standard for what most people have come to think of as the way to see Kaua`i’s Na Pali Coast. From Ha`ena, passengers are loaded into customized rubber rafts and taken up … Continued
What are the environmental consequences of the boating operations in Hanalei Bay, Hanalei River and more generally along Kaua`i’s North Shore? The North Shore Charter Boat Association has submitted to Kaua`i County a report that is intended to answer those … Continued
A few days ago — Friday, August 23 — an extraordinary event occurred. A feud, simmering for years between two branches of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, broke through the surface, with the Division of Land Management appealing … Continued
The action (or inaction) of government agencies has indeed caused material harm to the boating industry on Kaua`i. However, it has not always been the damage depicted by the larger boating businesses. Take the case of Ralph Young. In the … Continued
I am increasingly distressed to see the Sierra Club taking stands and filing suits on issues which seem without scientific validity — one such being the insistence of secondary treatment of sewage discharged miles off Sand Island at great distance … Continued
Because of the concentration of heavy metals and other toxics in incinerator ash, it may be the one thing on Earth that is truly non-recyclable. The City’s biggest concern, however, is to avoid having the ash characterized as hazardous. Were … Continued
“Lanikai Hale,” the name Ralph and Betty Engelstad have given their proposed house on Conservation District land, maybe loosely translated as house of the heavenly sea. The controversy that has surrounded it, however, can fairly be described as hellish. In … Continued
Residential development of Conservation District land may strike some environmentalists as a trivial problem. Usually, no critical habitat for rare or endangered species is involved. Rarely is the area proposed for development pristine. Nonetheless, the case histories presented here suggest … Continued