Menacing Miconia: In the wake of hurricane Iselle, all eyes have been focused on the substantial damages caused by falling albizia trees, with little attention paid to Miconia calvescens. Yet near Onomea, ground zero of the miconia infestation on the … Continued
Our annual dinner was a roaring success, and we want to thank all those who made the evening so memorable. Most of all, thanks to Dr. Sam `Ohu Gon of The Nature Conservancy of Hawai`i, our guest speaker. We also … Continued
This month, the Kaua`i Island Utility Cooperative is expected to begin license negotiations with the state Agribusiness Development Corporation for a 25-megawatt pumped storage hydroelectric project in West Kaua`i. Pumped storage is one of several ways the utility hopes to … Continued
Last month, Neil “Dutch” Kuyper, president and CEO of Parker Ranch, laid out his arguments why residents in the northwestern corner of Hawai`i island might want to defect from Hawai`i Electric Light Company’s grid. Simply put, a new energy portfolio … Continued
Noted Hawaiian cultural practitioner Uncle Henry Chang Wo, Jr., has taken his fight to protect the famed limu beds of `Ewa from the effects of increased development to 1st Circuit Court. On June 13, the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation filed … Continued
The Hawai`i Supreme Court agreed last month to hear arguments on whether the University of Hawai`i should have prepared a full environmental impact statement for its Haleakala High Altitude Observatory Site master plan — a plan the state Department of … Continued
Land Board Approves Controversial Lease For Temporary Homeless Facility at Sand Island If the city is going to soon start shooing the homeless out of Waikiki anyway, what’s the harm in giving them a place to go? That seemed, in … Continued
No one saw it coming. Not the Hawai`i County Planning Department, which had given its blessing to the 7,500-square-foot house being built by Scott Watson and his partner, mainland attorney Gary Olimpia, on the Pepe`ekeo coast a few miles north … Continued
Even though Hawai`i is the nation’s leader in solar power use per capita, no one here — not customers, not state legislators, and certainly not the solar industry — seems happy with the way the Hawaiian Electric companies have recently … Continued
Kealakehe Pilikia: The County of Hawai`i is facing mounting pressure to stop its practice of dumping treated effluent from the Kealakehe sewage treatment plant into a disposal pit near the Kona coast. As reported in the July issue of Environment … Continued