Photo: Ted Hong, attorney for Community Based Education Support Services. By Patricia Tummons In the end, it wasn’t even close. By the time the Land Use Commission was set to vote on a special permit allowing the construction of a … Continued
Hu Honua Rebuffed: The on-again, off-again dispute over the Hu Honua power plant just north of Hilo is now on again. This comes after Hu Honua itself sought to postpone – possibly for months – the scheduled start of a … Continued
Can a private entity’s petition to designate state lands as Important Agricultural Lands advance without the state’s permission? That question and many others arose last month, when the Land Use Commission met to consider a petition to designate 12,123 acres … Continued
PRI Planning: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are inviting public input as a first step toward developing a management plan for the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. The monument, which covers almost half … Continued
The 189th meeting of the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council convened last month, amid a spate of unfavorable publicity, much of which dealt with the council’s lack of transparency. On the day before the full council meeting, the council’s Executive and … Continued
For years, the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council has sought to obtain permission from the federal government to authorize the killing of green sea turtles (honu, in Hawaiian) for cultural purposes. The turtles around the Hawaiian archipelago are classified as a Distinct Population … Continued
On January 11, 1st Circuit Judge Jeffrey Crabtree will hold a hearing on the Sierra Club of Hawai‘i’s motion for summary judgment regarding a complaint it filed last October against the state Department of Health. The group seeks to force the … Continued
‘Pioneer’ OCCL Director Retires At the Land Board’s December 10 meeting, Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands administrator Sam Lemmo announced that he would be retiring at the end of the month after 30 years … Continued
‘Aina Le‘a, Inc., owner of more than 1,000 acres of land near the Big Island town of Waikoloa, has effectively lost a foreclosure lawsuit that was brought against it by the creditor whose loan allowed the company to climb out … Continued