Did the storm water that accumulated at the Waimanalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill last December and January come into contact with solid waste, thus requiring it to be treated as leachate? This question is at the heart of a dispute between … Continued
The food irradiator that Michael Kohn of Pa`ina Hawai`i has been planning for years is stalled out once more. Kohn, it will be recalled, obtained a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to built a cobalt-60 food irradiator near the … Continued
NELHA News, Part I: Ronald Baird, administrator since 2005 of the state’s Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai`i Authority, has announced he will be leaving. On December 31, Baird sent a letter out to some NELHA board members and tenants stating … Continued
Was it avoidable? Or was it inevitable that a series of storms would wreak havoc on the Waimanalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill’s storm water drainage system, break open a waste cell, and wash medical and municipal waste and contaminated runoff into … Continued
It’s no secret that the state Department of Health usually settles fines for far lower than the amount originally proposed. The recently concluded violation case regarding O`ahu’s Waimanalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill is no exception. Last May, the DOH fined the … Continued
This month, the state Agribusiness Development Corporation (ADC) is expected to vote on whether to issue a 35-year license to Green Energy, LLC, a Kaua`i company that plans to grow trees on state land in Kalepa, then chip and burn … Continued
At Hakalau, the pigs are back. In 2004 and 2005, surveys of the fenced management units at Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge, on the windward slopes of Mauna Kea, showed that six of the eight fenced management units were pig-free … Continued
Pigs in Manoa: While our cover article this month focuses on pigs at Hakalau, on the Big Island, another study just published in Pacific Science looks at pigs in the forests of Manoa Valley, on O`ahu. The study, by a … Continued
Less than a week after the state Board of Land and Natural Resources fined KapohoKine Adventures, LLC, $16,500 for Conservation District violations at Honoli`i, Hawai`i County planning director Bobbi-Jean Leithead-Todd delivered more bad news to the company: The airstrip on … Continued
Like a dagger through the heart, the state-owned Piha tract tears straight through the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge. Technically, Piha is part of Hawai`i’s system of forest reserves, set aside in the early part of the 20th century to … Continued