October 2017 PDF
October 2017
Environment Hawai`i Fundraiser: New Speaker, Same Subject
Abby Frazier, a research geographer with the USDA Forest Service, will be the featured speaker when Environment Hawai`i hosts its annual dinner, to be held this year on October 20 at the `Imiloa Astronomy Center, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Frazier, … Continued
Large Longliners to Hit Bigeye Limit for Eastern Pacific on Friday
Things are about to get a bit tighter for the Hawai`i longline fleet. On September 1, the National Marine Fisheries Service closed the Hawai`i longline fishery in the Western and Central Pacific because the fleet had exceeded its annual bigeye … Continued
NOAA Says Wespac Member Can’t Vote On Fishing Rules for Expanded Monument
It may make no practical difference. Votes by the appointed members of the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Wespac) have traditionally been unanimous. But at the council’s June meeting, Elena Onaga of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of … Continued
Arbiter in Maui Water Case Gives Weight To A&B’s Tentative Diversified Ag Plan
With the closure last December of Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar’s (HC&S) sugarcane plantation, most of its former fields in Central Maui now sit fallow. Some cattle graze on a small portion, and the company has made moves to grow bioenergy … Continued
Once More, Green Infrastructure Agency Is Attempting to Remove PUC Oversight
If at first you don’t succeed… With the Hawai`i Green Infrastructure Authority (HGIA) having failed to win the Legislature’s approval of a bill to relieve it of Public Utility Commission oversight, it is now trying to get the PUC to … Continued
HGIA Disses ‘Clean Energy Advocates’
In attempting to advance its case for freedom from the yoke of the Public Utilities Commission, the Hawai`i Green Infrastructure Authority throws shade on “clean energy advocates,” who, it would seem, don’t understand the real motivation of “low and … Continued
Who Pays the Vig on DOE Loan?
When Gov. David Ige signed House Bill 957 into law, the Hawai‘i Green Infrastructure Authority was mandated to give an interest-free $46.4 million loan to the state Department of Education. The money is to pay for energy-efficiency improvements to public … Continued
Board Talk: Flooding, Erosion, and Legacy Lands
Constant Flooding Hampers Tenant’s Ability To Pay Rent for Mapunapuna Demo Business By now, anyone who watches the local evening news knows that Mapunapuna floods dramatically during high tides and heavy rains. As local scientists and government agencies have ramped up … Continued
NARS Commission Grants Permit For Ecological Station at Pu‘u Maka‘ala
On July 31, the Natural Area Reserves System Commission approved a special use permit to the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish a National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) field site within the Pu‘u Maka‘ala Natural Area Reserve (NAR) on Hawai’i … Continued