On August 14, we’ll be partying hearty at the `Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo, celebrating a quarter-century of investigative environmental journalism in Hawai`i. Reserve your place now by calling us at (808) 934-0115 or emailing ptummons@gmail.com. The event starts at … Continued
Last month, the Kekaha Agriculture Association (KAA) and the state Agribusiness Development Corporation (ADC) informed the state Commission on Water Resource Management that they were willing to participate in mediation regarding a 2013 waste complaint and a petition to amend … Continued
Plans to make the Whitmore area in North O`ahu the island’s agricultural hub — complete with processing facilities, an agribusiness-technology park, and thousands of acres of farmland — are quickly coming together, at least when it comes to acquiring … Continued
The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT) has issued its first “true-up” for the Green Energy Market Securitization (GEMS) bonds. The true-up, a required element of the program approved by the Public Utilities Commission, is a periodic accounting … Continued
Board Facilitates Removal of Encroachments, While Expanding an Easement for Another “The ocean is rising. The state is getting more land every year,” said board member Stanley Roehrig at the May 8 meeting of the state Board of Land and Natural … Continued
Moving Targets: Four years ago, the Hawai`i Clean Energy Initiative issued a “road map” identifying strategies for reducing the use of fossil fuels in the transportation sector. So how is that working out? Last month, the state released a draft … Continued
At a time when the bigeye tuna stock in the Western and Central Pacific is being overfished — and by some standards, is already in an overfished state — the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council last month asked the National … Continued
July 2015
This time around, not a single angry word came from Hawai`i’s commercial bottomfish fishers, even though their annual catch limit (ACL) over the next few years will be tens of thousands of pounds less than it’s been in recent … Continued
AW Hawai`i Wind LLC has submitted applications for two offshore wind generating facilities, which will be the subject of a meeting Wednesday, June 3, in Honolulu. For more information on the meeting, including how to register, see http://www.boem.gov/Renewable-Energy-Program/State-Activities/Hawaii.aspx The proposals anticipate … Continued