Editorial
Beam Us Up, Scotty: There’s No Intelligent Life Here A hidden agenda? Many people who oppose the notion that a spaceport should be built in Ka’u have claimed that there is a “hidden agenda” in the state’s undying efforts to … Continued
Five Years in the Making, Draft EIS Is Still Not Ready for the Public's Review
In mid-May 1993, MCM Planning delivered to the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism a 10-volume draft environmental impact statement for the proposed Ka’u spaceport. The Office of Space Industry, within DBEDT, is conducting now what it calls … Continued
Letters Between Lockheed, State Discuss Prospect of Defense Dollars for Spaceport
“Big Isle Spaceport on Pad,” screamed the headline across the top of Page One of The Honolulu Advertiser of May 27, 1993. The article below carried news of the announcement, made by the governor’s office of what Governor John Waihe’e … Continued
Delays in Release of Spaceport Plans Fuel Skepticism of Ka'u Residents
In 1989, the U.S. Air Force and National Aeronautics and Space Administration, without prior notice to the state of Hawai’i, announced they would be taking comments on a plan to develop what was called an Advanced Launch System. The Big … Continued
Questions Surround Membership, Operations of Space Authority Advisory Board
Since 1989, taxpayers in Hawai’i have been picking up the costs of meetings of the Hawai’i Space Development Authority. That usually involves some travel for the authority’s chairman, Thomas B. Hayward, since the meetings are held in California. Other expenses … Continued
After Environment Hawai'i Report, Del Monte Stops Use of Heptachlor
In June, Environment Hawai’i reported that the Del Monte Corp. was continuing to use heptachlor despite a ban on use of the chemical issued in 1978. Under the “existing stocks” exception to the ban, Del Monte spokesmen said, their use … Continued
Hawaiian Western Steel Goes Under, Taking the Environment With It
September 16, 1992: Across the country, newspapers carry reports of a hearing on Capitol Hill into the Justice Department’s failure to press criminal charges against six companies identified by congressional staffers as among the most flagrant polluters in the nation. … Continued
Editorial on Hawaiian Western Steel
As the Public Is Poisoned, State Casts its Lot with Polluter Will they get away with it? “They” are Hawaiian Western Steel and Campbell Estate. “It” is the indisputable record of crimes against the environment and the public compiled during … Continued
Document: Violations at Steel Mill Were 'Serious, Willful,' Congress Is Told
On September 9, 1992, Representative John Dingell of Michigan, chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations, issued a memorandum to members of his subcommittee. The memo had been prepared by his staff, … Continued
STARS Latest in a Series Of SDI Projects at Kaua`i
The missile launches that require evacuation of surrounding state-owned land will occur at an area known as the Kaua`i Test Facility, which is at the northern end of the Pacific Missile Range Facility, just inland of the famous Barking Sands … Continued