For `Aina Le`a, Inc., the prospect that it will be able to carry out its planned development on 1,000-plus acres in South Kohala is growing ever dimmer, with the company facing multiple foreclosure actions, potential downzoning of its property by … Continued
If it weren’t for us, you wouldn’t even have a beach and you promised us we could use it, so cut us a break. That appears to have been the attitude of representatives for the Kahala Hotel & Resort over … Continued
Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Wespac) executive director Kitty Simonds isn’t just pushing for commercial longlining to return to the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument expansion area established by President Barack Obama late last year. She’s made it clear she’s also … Continued
July 2017
The long-awaited settlement of a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the state Land Use Commission was signed in February. Lawyers from both the Attorney General’s office and the company that, for a while, proposed to develop the Villages of `Aina Le`a … Continued
Hawai`i County, once one of the biggest cheerleaders for the development known as the Villages of `Aina Le`a, is over it. In a nine-page letter dated May 16, county planning director Michael Yee informed attorney Alan Okamoto that in light … Continued
Kaua`i Springs Order: The Public Utilities Commission has rejected the request from a Kaua`i water bottler that it determine the bottler’s source of water is exempt from requirements that apply to water utilities. The May 22 order notes that the … Continued
The first — and perhaps, only —slate of projects recommended for funding by the state’s nascent Water Security Advisory Group includes a range of efforts to increase freshwater sustainability, from building catchment systems to re-engineering taro irrigation canals to installing … Continued
“This is one of the really cool things the state does. We come away from this every year feeling we did something, we really did something,” said outgoing Legacy Land Conservation Commission member John Sinton at the group’s meeting … Continued
Nearly a year after NextEra’s proposed takeover of Hawaiian Electric was voted down by the Public Utilities Commission, four of the renewable energy projects that were axed by Hawaiian Electric – at the behest of NextEra, some claim – have … Continued