The Commission on Water Resource Management has approved a contested case hearing to be held on the long-term fate of water in the Waiahole ditch. The decision occurred at the commission’s meeting on November 16, where it considered the formal … Continued
In GTE Directories, Fingers Walk Through Ancient Canadian Forest Telephone directories published in Hawai’i and elsewhere by GTE are printed on paper purchased from MacMillan-Bloedel, a wood products company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Much of that paper comes from … Continued
Repeated Reports of Violations Near Keana’e Fall on Deaf Ears at DLNR “Four centuries ago, Kiha-a-Pi’ilani returned to East Maui from the island of Hawai’i to reclaim his kingdom. So numerous were his war canoes that the first ones reached … Continued
The federal Department of Energy has released its implementation plan for the environmental impact statement that is to address management options for dealing with spent nuclear fuel being stored at Pearl Harbor and other naval installations. The plan calls for … Continued
The Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation, a part of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, has begun processing of its first application for commercial beach use. The application is being made by Club Lanai, a tour boat company. … Continued
How much water does Lana’i have? And is that enough to support the kind of development that David Murdock has planned for it? These two questions are at the heart of a dispute that has pitted Murdock’s Dole Food Company … Continued
On February 25, 1994, the Board of Land and Natural Resources approved a request by the DLNR’s Division of Water and Land Development, (the state equivalent of the Corps of Engineers) to drill a well near Waikoloa, on the western … Continued
The U.S. General Accounting Office, to whom Congress turns when it has questions on federal programs has examined recycling programs at several military bases. In 1982, Congress allowed the Department of Defense to use proceeds from its recycling programs to … Continued
Two years ago, the Board of Land and Natural Resources was asked to grant another one-year extension to the permit issued by the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of State Parks to Clancy Greff’s boating operation.1 Greff was … Continued