January 2011 PDF
January 2011
Agribusiness Committee May Reconsider Biofuels Project at Kekaha
Pacific West Energy, LLC is not going away quietly. With a handful of high-profile backers, its request to lease feedstock land for a proposed 20-megawatt power plant may yet win approval from the state Agribusiness Development Corporation. Or it may … Continued
Editorial: Tuna Are in Trouble, With No Help in Sight
Too many boats. Too few tuna. In the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, the rights of countries to catch fish have outrun the fish’s ability to keep up. With no one willing to give ground, the result is a giant … Continued
State's Proposed Hunting Rules Fail to Protect Forests, Critics Say
The state’s management scheme for game mammals is in serious need of an overhaul and recently proposed revisions to hunting rules are only a minor improvement, conservationists say. But instead of merely lifting bag and season limits in certain sensitive … Continued
NEW & NOTEWORTHY: QLT Appeals; Green v. Blue on O`ahu's North Shore
Court Gets Forest City Appeal: The Queen Lili`uokalani Trust has appealed the decision of the state Land Use Commission approving the Kona project known as Kamakana Villages, to be developed by the Hawai`i Housing and Finance Development Corporation and Forest … Continued
Utilities Propose Stricter Standards for Distributed Generation Facilities
It may get even harder for renewable energy projects to hook up to electricity grids on O`ahu, Maui, and Hawai`i if a proposal by the utilities on those islands wins state approval. The utilities say they are just trying to … Continued
Hokukano Sandalwood Logging Scheme Coming to a Head in Bankruptcy Court
Within the next few weeks, a judge in federal Bankruptcy Court in Honolulu may decide the fate of a company that is logging thousands of tons of sandalwood from lands high above Kealakekua Bay, in what was once one of … Continued
Bigeye Tuna Population Faces Jeopardy as International Organization Fails to Act
No doubt about it: bigeye tuna are in trouble in the central and western Pacific Ocean. Targeted by longliners when they are adult, trapped in purse seine nets when they are young, bigeye are in a steep decline, with fisheries … Continued