On June 14, U.S. District Judge David Ezra denied without prejudice the Hawai`i Longline Association’s (HLA) appeal of a January settlement between the National Marine Fisheries Service and environmental groups regarding interactions between the shallow-set longline fishery and threatened loggerhead … Continued
Tropic Land, LLC has failed to persuade enough members of the state Land Use Commission to approve a boundary amendment allowing for the company’s proposed light industrial park in Lualualei Valley in West O`ahu. On April 21, the LUC voted … Continued
“I’m sure there will be a next time,” said David Swatland of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. At last month’s meeting of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) Marine Ecosystem Reserve Advisory Council, Swatland described some of the lessons learned from … Continued
Last November 30, Moloka`i Properties Ltd., owner of almost all of the assets of the now defunct Moloka`i Ranch, petitioned the Land Use Commission to designate 4,919 (later amended to 5,203) acres of ranch land in West Moloka`i as important … Continued
Since the Legislature passed a measure giving landowners incentives to protect important agricultural lands in 2008, the state Land Use Commission has been presented with a total of five IAL petitions. In the first two years after passage of Act … Continued
Alone among Hawai`i’s four counties, Kaua`i is hard at work on developing maps indicating its most important agricultural lands. O`ahu, Maui, and Hawai`i have yet to leave the starting gate, when it comes to developing the “inclusive process for public … Continued
Last September, the ADC’s Kekaha Committee gave preliminary approval to PLP’s proposals, in large part, because they included upgrades to the area’s electricity and irrigation infrastructure. The hydropower projects alone would generate 11 megawatts of power, which would be sold … Continued
Developers of a proposed light industrial park in Lualualei Valley want more time to secure adequate access to the site, since one government official after another has told them that the project will not likely receive the approvals it needs … Continued
Did the storm water that accumulated at the Waimanalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill last December and January come into contact with solid waste, thus requiring it to be treated as leachate? This question is at the heart of a dispute between … Continued
The food irradiator that Michael Kohn of Pa`ina Hawai`i has been planning for years is stalled out once more. Kohn, it will be recalled, obtained a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to built a cobalt-60 food irradiator near the … Continued