In 1993, the United States signed the Chemical Weapons Convention, a treaty sponsored by the United Nations. The U.S. Senate, however, has not yet ratified the convention, despite Senate hearings having been held on the treaty. The General Accounting Office … Continued
Judge Overturns Land Board Denial Of Time Extension for Engelstad House The embattled Conservation District Use Permit of Ralph and Betty Engelstad to build a house in Lanikai, O’ahu, has been judicially revived. An order issued January 2, 1997, by … Continued
Japanese Paper Firm Gets Nod For Pulp Plantation on State Land The state Board of Land and Natural Resources has given its tentative approval to a plan that calls for leasing about 5,100 acres of former cane land in the … Continued
The Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System was designed in the mid-1980s and construction of the $150 million facility was completed in 1988. Four years earlier, when the Army was first charged by Congress to destroy the nation’s stockpiles of … Continued
The Hawai’i legislature has approved a bill that, if signed by Governor Cayetano (as appears likely), will alter fundamentally the state’s approach to management of endangered species. The bill’s authors and supporters, including The Nature Conservancy of Hawai’i, say the … Continued
Legislation amending Hawai’i’s endangered species law contains provisions that are mod eled after concepts found in the federal Endangered Species Act. The National Wildlife Federation has developed brief background sheets on these concepts. Here is a summary of them, drawn … Continued
Disagreements over amendments to the state endangered species law were exacer bated early on, when Representative Terry Nui Yoshinaga performed a legislative sleight of hand that, while not unprec edented, upset many environmentalists and even other legislators. The changes effected … Continued
In recent months, Kaua’i County has attempted to deal with its various solid-waste management problems in a variety of ways. As was widely reported, the county caused state-owned Conservation District land near Wailua to be used as a dump for … Continued
Land Board Cancels Lease, Permit Held by Ke’ehi Marine Center The Board of Land and Natural Resources has cancelled the lease and revocable permit held by Ke’ehi Marine, Inc. The action, taken at the board’s April 25 meeting, followed protracted … Continued
Sugar changed the face of the Hawaiian Islands, but water was the instrument of that change. Dam by dam, tunnel by tunnel, ditch by ditch, the sugar plantations transformed the landscape in a process that, retrospectively, is breathtaking in its … Continued