House Bill 2217 should have passed easily. It would have opened up to public comment agency decisions that proposed projects have no significant environmental impact – the so-called “Negative Declarations.” At present, public comment is limited to those projects for … Continued
Who knows if the full story of Senate Bill 667 will ever be known? But what happened to the bill in the 1989 legislative session set the stage for many of the problems that occurred this past session. The animosity … Continued
With all the attention recycling has received, you might have thought a bill providing for sensible solid waste management would have made it through to the finish line. Guess again. The bill – H.B. 2181 and its companion in the … Continued
The operation of charter boats along the North Shore of Kaua`i began, by most accounts, in the mid-1970s. Tom Hegarty, a charter boat operator, has said he started carrying passengers for hire in 1975. Clancy Greff, whose nom de mer … Continued
For the last 14 years, public officials in Hawai`i have talked a lot about controlling boating activity on Kaua`i’s North Shore. They have drawn up plans for regulating boaters through bids and concessions. They have jawed on about carrying capacities … Continued
More than anyone else, Clancy Greff has set the standard for what most people have come to think of as the way to see Kaua`i’s Na Pali Coast. From Ha`ena, passengers are loaded into customized rubber rafts and taken up … Continued
What are the environmental consequences of the boating operations in Hanalei Bay, Hanalei River and more generally along Kaua`i’s North Shore? The North Shore Charter Boat Association has submitted to Kaua`i County a report that is intended to answer those … Continued
A few days ago — Friday, August 23 — an extraordinary event occurred. A feud, simmering for years between two branches of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, broke through the surface, with the Division of Land Management appealing … Continued
The action (or inaction) of government agencies has indeed caused material harm to the boating industry on Kaua`i. However, it has not always been the damage depicted by the larger boating businesses. Take the case of Ralph Young. In the … Continued