Environment Hawai’i reprints here excerpts from the opinion of the Hawai’i Supreme Court on the matter of the Department of Health’s issuance of geothermal drilling permits to True Geothermal Energy Company in the absence of rules to regulate emission of … Continued
Since June 28, high-level nuclear waste from Navy submarines defueled at the Pearl Harbor shipyard has no place to go. It is likely, in fact, that it will be at least two years before any shipments of the waste from … Continued
The Idaho National Engineering Laboratory has been receiving highly radioactive waste since the late 1940s. In recent years, it has joined the list of sites operated by the Department of Energy whose clean-up will cost taxpayers billions of dollars – … Continued
The high level radioactive waste from submarine reactors is just one of several types of radioactive waste generated by nuclear ships. Other types are liquid waste, solid waste, and so-called “mixed waste.” Liquid Waste Until 1973, the Navy routinely discharged … Continued
How often are nuclear submarines defueled at the Pearl Harbor shipyard? According to Navy spokeswoman Annette Campbell, about one submarine per year is defueled. How often are they refueled? Actually, since June 1984, the Navy hasn’t done any refuelings at … Continued
The State Ethics Commission has taken an interest in the activities of Thomas B. Hayward. As an independent contractor to the Office of Space Industry, Hayward is exempt from state ethics rules that might restrict his outside employment (such as … Continued
To grow or not to grow? That question is at the heart of a dispute sparked by proposals from the state Department of Transportation to expand the runway and make other alterations to the state-owned airport at Kahului, Maui. Many … Continued
The Department of Transportation has got religion — and a peculiar one it is, at that. We’re not talking about any orthodox faith here. It’s not shared by the traditional advocates of the tourism industry, whose high priests and bishops … Continued