Beach access got a real boost today. Hawaii’s Senate Judiciary Committee just passed SB 1088, which will help to improve enforcement of public access rights to the shoreline and inland recreational areas. Yay! Big Mahalos to everyone who submitted testimony! There is still a chance to help out in this important effort. The bill is [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Half Way To Victory!
Posted in activism, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged access, beach access, ocean protection on February 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Now, where did we leave those things?
Posted in ocean protection, tagged dumping, environmental justice, military, ocean protection, weapons on February 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
UH, the Army and NOAA are getting around next week to looking for chemical weapons dumped off the Waianae Coast in the 1940s. A public report released in 2001 by the Army’s Historical Research and Response Team identified over 4,000 tons of dumped chemicals munitions, including hydrogen cyanide bombs, cyanogens chloride bombs, mustard bombs and [...]
Ceded Lands Supreme Court Oral Arguments Online
Posted in land and cultural rights, tagged ceded lands, supreme court on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Transcript of today’s Supreme Court Oral Arguments are already online: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/07-1372.pdf (Thanks to iLind.net for the tip.)
Biotech Seed Companies Thwarting Good Science
Posted in food sovereignty, gmo, tagged biotch, food sovereignty, gmo on February 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From Miwa: We’re getting closer to knowing why we don’t know what we don’t know–in an unusual statement issued earlier this month, 26 leading corn insect scientists expressed their opposition to industry stranglehold on research of genetically modified crops. “No truly independent research can be legally conducted on many critical questions,” the statement says. The [...]
Understatement of the Month
Posted in ocean protection, tagged coral, military, ocean protection, sewage, water quality on February 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From the Honolulu Advertiser coverage of the grounding and sewage release by the U.S. Navy’s 567-foot Port Royal: The omission was one more bit of embarrassment heaped onto the 3 1/2-day spectacle of a 9,600-ton warship capable of shooting down ballistic missiles in space sitting helplessly aground in 17 to 22 feet of water just [...]
How to Biofuel?
Posted in island sustainability, tagged biofuel, energy, energy independence, fossil fuels, gree energy on February 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Check out Andrew Alan McNarie’s excellent piece on the present (and possible future) of biofuels in Hawaii in the Hawaii Independent. In 2002, the state Legislature enacted provisions in Hawai‘i Revised Statutes, Section 171-95, to allow the Board of Land and Natural Resources to directly negotiate leases of state land to the companies producing vegetation-derived [...]
Bad Mauna Kea Bills Move Through Legislature
Posted in island sustainability, land and cultural rights, mauna kea, tagged activism, ceded lands, mauna kea on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Rob Perez’s excellent coverage of the Mauna Kea bills currently moving through the state legislature: Two bills (HB 1174 and SB 502) giving UH authority over the 11,000-plus acres of ceded lands it leases from the Department of Land and Natural Resources have been approved by two committees each in the House and Senate, [...]
Kanaka Scholars Stand Up for Mauna Kea
Posted in land and cultural rights, mauna kea, tagged cultural practice, desecration, DLNR, indigenous rights, kanaka maoli, mauna kea, religion, sacred summit, sprirituality, universit of hawaii on February 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Mahalo nui loa to the dozens of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) scholars who submitted this statement in support of protecting the sacred summit of Mauna Kea. The University of Hawaii is seeking to take over control of the summit from the Department of Land and Natural Resources because they lost the lawsuit in 2007 that [...]
Defend the Sacred Summit of Mauna Kea
Posted in activism, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, mauna kea, tagged cultural practice, management, mauna kea, sacred summit, telescopes, University of Hawaii on February 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Your help is needed right now. Lobbyists for the University of Hawaii, backed by powerful foreign telescope-developers, are pushing hard to take control of Mauna Kea’s public trust resources and override the conservation laws currently barring further development on our sacred summits. If successful, they will use this authority to write their own rules, approve [...]
The Old Wheel that Worked
Posted in ocean protection, tagged fisheries management, ocean protection, WESPAC on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kauai-based journalist Joan Conrow has written an excellent piece featuring Uncle Isaac Harp and his efforts to fundamentally change Hawaii’s broken system of fisheries management. “We need to stop figuring out how to be a new wheel and go back to the old wheel that worked,” Harp says. “We need to get back into ahupua‘a [...]
Dead Female Humpback found in Kekaha
Posted in ocean protection, tagged cetaceans, navy, ocean protection, sonar, whales on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Female humpback whale calf will be buried at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), perhaps appropriate–since PMRF is the place where much of the high intensity sonar activity in Hawaii is centered. The Navy 20 years ago placed sonar devices on the ocean floor off the west coast of Kauai to detect and track underwater [...]
Tightening the Grip of the State
Posted in activism, land and cultural rights, tagged activism, ceded lands on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From our intern, Koa Luke: Lingle and her goons are once again trying to steal Hawaiian lands, take action by signing this petition. The State of Hawai’i and Governor Lingle are vying for the right to clear title (that is, to sell) ceded/seized lands. The case will be heard by the United States Supreme Court [...]
Navy and WESPAC stand in way of Marine Monuments in the Pacific
Posted in ocean protection, tagged marine monuments, marine protection, navy, NWHI, WESPAC on February 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Some random quotes about the opposition to marine monuments in the Pacific from “Islands Business International” a Fijian on-line newspaper. The obstacles it cites: first the Navy, then WESPAC. “Ironically, the most significant opposition to extending the monuments to the full EEZs of the 11 islands had nothing to do with fishing: it came from [...]
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