In the last month, the country has gone to war. If Kuwait were not an ally sitting atop one of the world’s largest oil fields, one can only wonder how quickly the United States would have rushed to its defense. … Continued
The documents on which the reporting in this issue of Environment Hawai`i is based are part of the public record. Nonetheless, it is improbable that Environment Hawai`i on its own would have been able to obtain and review the far-ranging … Continued
From an environmental and cultural viewpoint, the Hawaiian Riviera Resort is a catastrophe waiting to happen. The many ways that this project would sin against nature were discussed in the June edition of Environment Hawai`i. Financially, it would seem to … Continued
This edition of Environment Hawai`i is a case history of the management of a substantial property owned by the state but run like a medieval fiefdom. It would take a corps of researchers far greater than ours to determine if … Continued
In February 1980, the Ad Hoc Committee on the Advancement of OTEC for Hawai`i reported that people attending a legislative workshop had been told that, “by 1990, OTEC plants in Hawai`i could provide as much as 660 megawatts to O`ahu.” … Continued
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
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
Just as this issue was about to go to press, news broke of the grounding of the Star Connecticut. The opportunity was too good to pass up. We junked the stories on the effects of oil on Hawai`i’s wildlife and … Continued
Someone once said of nuclear energy that it was an expensive way to boil water. That was before H-POWER. With a generational cost of 15 cents a kilowatt hour, H-POWER makes nuclear energy (about 12 cents per kilowatt hour) look … Continued
Fraud. That word is not too strong to describe the shenanigans employed by state and county officials and private consultants in their eagerness to spend federal money on the underground equivalent of roads to nowhere. Their actions may all be … Continued