Here is a short description of the businesses that have so far made public their interest in obtaining the use of state land in the Hamakua area for biomass, biofuels, or timber production: Hamakua Biomass Energy, LLC: This company has … Continued
A Seattle-based company has taken the first steps toward regulatory approvals of a wave energy project, possibly with an additional wind energy component, off Moloka`i that could generate up to 100 megawatts of electricity, according to the application filed in … Continued
Days before the departure of the Big Island administration of Mayor Harry Kim, the Hawai`i County Planning Department released draft guidelines for monitoring water quality in West Hawai`i. The “Revised Monitoring Protocol Guidelines” would, if adopted, establish more uniform reporting … Continued
Land Board Extends Deadlines to Complete Timber Mill It’s been about a decade since the state Board of Land and Natural Resources issued a timber land license to Tradewinds Forest Products, LLC, to log a portion of the state’s Waiakea … Continued
Virgin Paper Chase: Once again, the Department of Accounting and General Services is seeking an exemption from the requirement that it purchase paper with recycled content for printing state checks. According to the exemption request that state Controller Russell Saito … Continued
Once again, the City and County of Honolulu is in a pickle over the continued operation of the Waimanalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill, O`ahu’s only municipal solid waste facility. The city’s special use permit from the state Land Use Commission, which … Continued
Rarely does the tension in a Land Use Commission meeting rise to the level of spine-tingling. But the LUC’s hearing April 30 on the fate of 1,060 acres of Urban land owned by Bridge `Aina Le`a was high drama indeed. … Continued
Last month, the state Land Use Commission began its hearing on the petition of the City and County of Honolulu to amend the land use district boundary around west O`ahu’s Waimanalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill, changing it from Agricultural to Urban. … Continued
Kelly Greenwell was in high dudgeon. Addressing fellow members of the Hawai`i County on the subject of a resolution he had introduced to protest an aerial hunt to eradicate wild cattle in a state forest reserve, Greenwell fulminated, “This was … Continued
It seemed to come down to integrity versus practicality. And integrity lost. On September 24, the state Land Use Commission heard hours of testimony and debate about whether or not it should grant the City and County of Honolulu a … Continued