When I moved to Hawai‘i in the summer of 1989, Marjorie Ziegler was one of the first friends I made. I walked into the office of what was then the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, in the hope of establishing … Continued
Like a roly-poly doll, Claudia Rohr takes a punch and springs right back up again. Last December, the woman who owns a bed-and-breakfast operation in the Hilo neighborhood of Keaukaha filed a complaint in 3rd Circuit Court against Hawai‘i County … Continued
Board Rejects Plan To Dump Rocks Along Lanikai Seawall On October 26, the state Board of Land and Natural Resources denied the owners of a $9 million beachfront lot in Lanikai a Conservation District Use Permit to dump a sloped … Continued
November 2018
Extracting minerals from the abyssal depths of the ocean has long been an objective of countries around the world. And one of the areas that has been most coveted by countries and mining operations is the Clarion-Clipperton zone, which … Continued
October 2018
In February 1967, officers with the Kahala Hilton Hotel Company signed an agreement with the state that allowed for the hotel’s creation of a public beach and swimming area fronting what is now the Kahala Hotel & Resort in south … Continued
NELHA Tenant Exits: Cellana, the company that wanted to produce biofuel from algae, has abandoned its six-acre facility at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai`i Authority (NELHA) in Kona. To get out from under its debt of roughly $280,000 in … Continued
On September 18, the state Commission on Water Resource Management approved groundwater reservations for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) totaling more than 13 million gallons a day (mgd) and spanning 20 aquifers across the islands of Lana`i, Kaua`i, … Continued
“It’s not that I don’t like ResortTrust. You just got the potato at the end of the game,” Board of Land and Natural Resources member Keone Downing told the company’s representatives on September 14. “One potato, two potato, three potato, … Continued