By all accounts, the selection of Hawai`i Island as the site for filming of WaterWorld is attributable to the work of Robin Kealoha Black, who, in 1993 and for part of 1994, was managing director of the Big Island Film … Continued
A lawyer representing the Office of Hawaiian Affairs has accused Board of Land and Natural Resources member Libert Landgraf of ex parte communication concerning the contested case being heard over the Conservation District application of Haseko (Ewa), Inc., to blast … Continued
Judge Overturns Default Approval Of Conservation Permit for HELCO A judge in Kona has determined that the Board of Land and Natural Resources erred when it allowed a Conservation District permit for a 56-megawatt expansion of the Keahole power plant … Continued
Along most of the coast of Kihei, Maui, a strip of state-owned land lies sandwiched between the ocean and the makai boundaries of privately owned lots. The land was set aside as a beach reserve when most of Kihei was … Continued
The Commission on Water Resource Management has approved a contested case hearing to be held on the long-term fate of water in the Waiahole ditch. The decision occurred at the commission’s meeting on November 16, where it considered the formal … Continued
Spent Nuclear Fuel at Pearl Harbor: Four Containers Full, Two More at the Ready As of November 9, 1994, four containers of spent nuclear fuel from decommissioned Navy submarines were being held at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. According to … Continued
The Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation, a part of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, has begun processing of its first application for commercial beach use. The application is being made by Club Lanai, a tour boat company. … Continued
The federal Department of Energy has released its implementation plan for the environmental impact statement that is to address management options for dealing with spent nuclear fuel being stored at Pearl Harbor and other naval installations. The plan calls for … Continued
Repeated Reports of Violations Near Keana’e Fall on Deaf Ears at DLNR “Four centuries ago, Kiha-a-Pi’ilani returned to East Maui from the island of Hawai’i to reclaim his kingdom. So numerous were his war canoes that the first ones reached … Continued
In GTE Directories, Fingers Walk Through Ancient Canadian Forest Telephone directories published in Hawai’i and elsewhere by GTE are printed on paper purchased from MacMillan-Bloedel, a wood products company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Much of that paper comes from … Continued