The operation of charter boats along the North Shore of Kaua`i began, by most accounts, in the mid-1970s. Tom Hegarty, a charter boat operator, has said he started carrying passengers for hire in 1975. Clancy Greff, whose nom de mer … Continued
For the last 14 years, public officials in Hawai`i have talked a lot about controlling boating activity on Kaua`i’s North Shore. They have drawn up plans for regulating boaters through bids and concessions. They have jawed on about carrying capacities … Continued
More than anyone else, Clancy Greff has set the standard for what most people have come to think of as the way to see Kaua`i’s Na Pali Coast. From Ha`ena, passengers are loaded into customized rubber rafts and taken up … Continued
What are the environmental consequences of the boating operations in Hanalei Bay, Hanalei River and more generally along Kaua`i’s North Shore? The North Shore Charter Boat Association has submitted to Kaua`i County a report that is intended to answer those … Continued
A few days ago — Friday, August 23 — an extraordinary event occurred. A feud, simmering for years between two branches of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, broke through the surface, with the Division of Land Management appealing … Continued
The action (or inaction) of government agencies has indeed caused material harm to the boating industry on Kaua`i. However, it has not always been the damage depicted by the larger boating businesses. Take the case of Ralph Young. In the … Continued
I am increasingly distressed to see the Sierra Club taking stands and filing suits on issues which seem without scientific validity — one such being the insistence of secondary treatment of sewage discharged miles off Sand Island at great distance … Continued
Because of the concentration of heavy metals and other toxics in incinerator ash, it may be the one thing on Earth that is truly non-recyclable. The City’s biggest concern, however, is to avoid having the ash characterized as hazardous. Were … Continued