From: Andrea Just last month, Act 155 was passed in the Hawaii Legislature, amending Hawaii’s renewable energy law. One of the highlights of this amendment was the strengthening of Hawaii’s Renewable Portfolio Standards (often abbreviated as RPS). These standards are binding for electric utility companies, which must satisfy the specified percentage of their net electricity [...]
Posts Tagged ‘management’
Hawaii’s Renewable Portfolio Standards: Aggressive But in Need of Qualification
Posted in 1, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, activism, climate change, conservation, environmental justice, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, legislature, ocean protection, other, tagged hawaii, activism, ocean, land and cultural rights, oceans, environmental justice, management, legislature, sustainability, island sustainability, northwestern hawaiian islands, conservation, energy independence, energy, fossil fuels, climate change, climate justice, cap and trade, renewable energy, global warming, energy law, renewable portfolio standards, biofuels on July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Draft Science Plan Public Hearing: Grandfathering-in Permitted Activities
Posted in Hawaiian Monk Seal, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, activism, conservation, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, other, tagged activism, beaches, conservation, coral, cultural rights, endangered species, environmental justice, hawaii, hearing, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, malama, management, marine protected area, monk seals, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection, oceans, shoreline, superferry, sustainability, whales on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From: Andrea Last night at the public hearing on the Draft Science Plan for Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, held at the monument office in Hawaii Kai, a troubling consequence of the lack of environmental review was elucidated. One of the Science Plan authors stated that research activities that have already been permitted are assumed to [...]
Empty Reefs
Posted in conservation, fisheries, ocean protection, tagged fisheries, management, ocean protection, oceans, sustainability on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Alana: This BBC News video shows how the growing demand for fish in places like inland China is putting a huge stress on coral reefs. Most adult fish have been caught, so the majority of fish sold in markets are juveniles that have not had a chance to reproduce yet. Because of this trend [...]
10-to-1 opposed and they still passed it
Posted in activism, land and cultural rights, mauna kea, tagged astronomy, conservation district, hawaii, legislation, management, mauna kea, sacred summit, University of Hawaii on March 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
From Marti: The bill to transfer management of the sacred summit of Mauna Kea to the University of Hawaii passed the state’s House Finance Committee on Tuesday. By the Committee’s own count, 900 people submitted testimony in opposition to the 10 or so in support. This number is not counting the testimony submitted by a [...]
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 [...]
Citizen Groups Sue Federal Fisheries Group for Failing to Disclose Use of Funds
Posted in ocean protection, tagged fisheries, lawsuit, management, WESPAC on January 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A lawsuit seeking basic government documents has been filed in Federal District Court against the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (WESPAC), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) by the Conservation Council for Hawaii, KAHEA: The Hawaiian-Environmental Alliance (KAHEA), and the LOST FISH Coalition. The lawsuit was [...]
Uncle Buzzy Calls for Renewed Committment to Pu`uhonua, Sunday’s Star-Bulletin
Posted in ocean protection, tagged coral, fisheries, fishing, harvest, human footprint, management, NWHI, permits, protection, pu'uhonua, research, science on March 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We opened up the Star-Bulletin on Sunday, and there in the Gathering Place section was long-time NWHI advocate Uncle Buzzy, calling for a renewed public commitment to a true pu`uhonua — a ‘forever sanctuary’ — in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Ho‘omaika‘i ia Uncle Buzzy! Uncle Louis “Buzzy” Agard, is a founding Board Member of KAHEA [...]
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