In September 1993, a memorandum of agreement between Mufi Hannemann, then the director of DBEDT, and Keith Ahue, director of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, assigned to DBEDT responsibility for issuing permits to film-makers to use state-owned land, … 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
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
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
How much water does Lana’i have? And is that enough to support the kind of development that David Murdock has planned for it? These two questions are at the heart of a dispute that has pitted Murdock’s Dole Food Company … 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
Whenever in a contested case the officials of the agency who are to render the final decision have not heard and examined all of the evidence, the decision, if adverse to a party to the proceeding other than the agency … Continued
The Department of Health recently tabulated the results of water quality measurements taken throughout 1992 at sites on Kaua’i, O’ahu, Maui, and the island of Hawai’i. For Lana’i and Moloka’i, the DOH released bar graphs showing average water quality at … Continued
“Water regs clog permit process.” So screamed the bold headline on page one of the January 17, 1994, edition of Pacific Business News. For developers, the news was grim indeed: according to the article, by Steve Jefferson, “More than $1 … Continued
In determining the health of fish populations, accurate information is essential. But the state of Hawai’i, to which falls the responsibility to collect data on catches of all fish landed in Hawai’i (including fish caught in federal waters), has a … Continued