As a way to boost Kaua`i’s capacity to incorporate more solar power onto the electrical grid, the Kaua`i Island Utility Cooperative’s proposed pumped storage hydropower project using old sugar plantation infrastructure seems like a no-brainer. But with an independent power … Continued
The morning of the vote, before the day’s meeting officially began, members and staff of the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council huddled with staff from the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Pacific Islands Regional Office. Wespac executive director Kitty Simonds, NMFS … Continued
At its November meeting, the state Board of Land and Natural Resources deferred for the second time acting on a proposed $31,000 fine against Grand View Apt., Inc., which owns a shoreline parcel in Mokuleia, O`ahu, that was devastated by … Continued
The kind of massive coral bleaching event that afflicted 75 percent of the dominant coral species in O`ahu’s Kane`ohe Bay last September is likely to become a regular occurrence within a few decades, according to modeling by scientists Jeff Maynard, … Continued
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