This month, the Kaua`i Island Utility Cooperative is expected to begin license negotiations with the state Agribusiness Development Corporation for a 25-megawatt pumped storage hydroelectric project in West Kaua`i. Pumped storage is one of several ways the utility hopes to … Continued
Last month, Neil “Dutch” Kuyper, president and CEO of Parker Ranch, laid out his arguments why residents in the northwestern corner of Hawai`i island might want to defect from Hawai`i Electric Light Company’s grid. Simply put, a new energy portfolio … Continued
Noted Hawaiian cultural practitioner Uncle Henry Chang Wo, Jr., has taken his fight to protect the famed limu beds of `Ewa from the effects of increased development to 1st Circuit Court. On June 13, the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation filed … Continued
Land Board Approves Controversial Lease For Temporary Homeless Facility at Sand Island If the city is going to soon start shooing the homeless out of Waikiki anyway, what’s the harm in giving them a place to go? That seemed, in … Continued
Even though Hawai`i is the nation’s leader in solar power use per capita, no one here — not customers, not state legislators, and certainly not the solar industry — seems happy with the way the Hawaiian Electric companies have recently … Continued
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has directed the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Wespac) to investigate the extent to which federal grant funds might have been misused by council staff members involved in preparing the pending petition to remove … Continued
Former North Shore Convalescent Home May Soon Shelter Sex Trafficking Victims It was a difficult choice: Provide a home for a few dozen underage sex trafficking victims or a campus for a new intermediate school for as many as 200 … Continued
It’s been seven months since the main line to Waikiki’s Beachwalk wastewater pump station cracked open, causing the city to divert 48 million gallons of raw sewage into the Ala Wai canal. But while the six-day spill and its effects … Continued
DLNR Eats $230,000 Remediation Bill for Contaminated North Kona Property It’s not unusual for the Department of Land and Natural Resources to request permission from the Board of Land and Natural Resources to write off uncollectible accounts. Rarely does the amount … Continued
Some of the building blocks of the Ko`olau Loa Sustainable Communities Plan (KLSCP) have been moving targets in recent months. Information about the region’s population, growth trends, and number of potential housing units was either absent from or sorely outdated … Continued