March 2011 PDF
March 2011
March 2011
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
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
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
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
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
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
Developers of a proposed light industrial park in Lualualei Valley want more time to secure adequate access to the site, since one government official after another has told them that the project will not likely receive the approvals it needs … Continued