How much does the Green Energy Market Securitization (GEMS) program cost customers of Hawaiian Electric utilities? According to the latest figures submitted to the state Public Utilities Commission, each business day from January 1 through June 30, Hawaiian Electric will … Continued
On November 28, the Hawai`i Green Infrastructure Authority (HGIA) proposed a new method by which GEMS funds could be distributed to residential customers. As with several other previous proposals, the Public Utilities Commission batted it down, ordering instead an “informal … Continued
January 2017
On December 1, Western Pacific Fishery Management Council chair Ed Ebisui, Jr., and executive director Kitty Simonds sent a letter to President Barack Obama advocating for direct compensation to Hawaii longline fishery participants impacted by the expansion of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine … Continued
December 2016
On January 9, the contested case hearing on Na Moku Aupuni o Ko‘olau Hui’s 2001 petition to amend the interim instream flow standards (IIFS) of 27 East Maui streams resumes. The group, which includes native Hawaiian taro farmers and cultural … Continued
Opponents Block Efforts to Allow Wind Farm to Harm Rare Animals On November 10, multiple requests for a contested case hearing forced the state Board of Land and Natural Resources to defer taking action on a request by the Department … Continued
For more than a decade, beginning in 1992, Riki May Amano served as a judge in Hawai‘i’s 3rd Judicial Circuit, which, like all judicial circuits in the state, is bound by strict rules of evidence and procedure that, generally speaking, … Continued
The evidentiary hearing in the second contested case over the application to build the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea began October 20 in the Willie K Crown Room of the Hilo Naniloa Hotel. The nightclub setting for the quasi-judicial … Continued