Many of you followed the sonar lawsuit from 2008, in which KAHEA, in partnership with Earthjustice and other local, national and international NGOs, sued the U.S. Navy over its proposed expansion of military exercises around Hawai’i, including the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The State of Hawai’i, at our urging, also asked the Navy to comply with [...]
Posts Tagged ‘military’
That Deafness? It’s Only Temporary.
Posted in Hawaiian Monk Seal, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, activism, fisheries, military toxics, ocean protection, tagged military, NWHI, ocean protection on August 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
No Plans to Clean Up Depleted Uranium, Army Says
Posted in military toxics, tagged contamination, healthy hawaii, military on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Mahalo again to Alan McNarie for excellent investigative piece on Depleted Uranium (DU). Schofield Barracks (O’ahu) and Pohakuloa Training Area (Hawai’i Island) are main areas where DU is a concern, but the Army has also admitted that there may be DU at Makua (O’ahu). According to a high Army official, the Army never intended to [...]
Hawaiʻi Undersea Military Munitions Assessment
Posted in activism, environmental justice, military toxics, tagged healthy hawaii, human health and justice, land and cultural rights, military, military toxics on May 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Video and article on the Hawai’i Undersea Military Munitions Assessment–the search to find legacy dumped munitions around Hawai’i, in the UH Malamalama: “…the first study of possible chemical weapons sites in Hawaiʻi and the most comprehensive study ever taken in U.S. waters…” http://www.hawaii.edu/malamalama/2010/04/underwater-ordnance/
Got Input for the Army on its Environmental Investigations? Apply by August 14!
Posted in activism, conservation, environmental justice, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, military toxics, other, tagged activism, conservation, cultural rights, development, environmental justice, island sustainability, malama, militarization, military, military toxics, sustainability on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From: Andrea U.S. Army Garrison-Hawaii is soliciting community interest in creating a Restoration Advisory Board as part of the Military Munitions Response Program for two sites near the U.S. Army’s Pohakuloa Training Area. The motivation for the Restoration Advisory Board is to enable community participation in environmental issues on previously used military training sites. Currently, [...]
They’re not aiming for Palau…
Posted in island sustainability, land and cultural rights, tagged militarization, military on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Miwa: From the NY Times, “Hawaiians Shrug off Missile Threat“: Now the Obama administration says North Korea could launch a ballistic missile in the state’s direction — possibly around the Fourth of July, according to the Japanese news media — prompting the United States military to strengthen defenses here… People took comfort in the [...]
Taken for a Ride
Posted in ocean protection, tagged military, superferry on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The excellent Chris Pala has a great investigative piece in today’s Honolulu Weekly on the “why” of Superferry: “Now that the Hawai‘i Supreme Court has freed them of any obligation to serve the Islands, which has proved to be a money-losing operation, are they going to fetch a better price elsewhere? If they do, was [...]
Will Proposed Army Studies on DU Tell Us What We Need to Know?
Posted in land and cultural rights, military toxics, tagged contamination, du, military, toxics on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Excerpt from Letter to the U.S. Army from Michael Reimer in regards to Depleted Uranium (DU) studies at Schofield Barracks, on Oahu, and Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA), on Hawaii: Colonel Howard Killian, Deputy Director U.S. Army Installation Management Command Pacific Region 132 Yamanaga Street Fort Shafter, Hawaii 96858-5520 Dear Colonel Killian: I have had an [...]
Another Mass Whale Stranding
Posted in ocean protection, tagged cetaceans, military, ocean protection, sonar on March 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yep, February was “Humpback Whale Awareness Month” in the states, but March is looking like a not-so-hot one for other cetaceans… Military sonar among suspected causes of mass whale stranding on the Tasmanian shore over the weekend. Mark Simmonds, of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society and an expert on cetacean strandings, said that two [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Coincidence, totally. Right.
Posted in ocean protection, tagged military, molokai, sonar, stranding, whales on July 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Monday = RIMPAC exercises end and another whale strands itself on Molokai beach. Think they’re related? “Any statements implicating sonar or RIMPAC activities are premature and speculative,” said spokesman Mark Matsunaga. Star-Bulletin story: http://starbulletin.com/2008/07/30/news/story09.html “Obviously I feel that there may be a correlation because, for one thing, this type of whale stranding does occur for [...]
Thar She Blows: DU on the move on the Big Island
Posted in activism, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, tagged depleted uranium, military, military toxics on July 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“Waiki`i Ranch Dust Samples Show No Depleted Uranium” is apparently receiving a skeptical response from local and international scientific experts, according to our friends at Malu `Aina on Hawai`i Island. The report posted a “statistically insignificant” amount of depleted uranium (DU) in the community of Waiki`i, 8 – 10 miles downwind of Pohakuloa Training Area [...]
Say NY Times and Star Bulletin: Navy should comply with Environmental Laws
Posted in ocean protection, tagged marine mammals, militarization, military, ocean, oceans, sonar, whales on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(graphic from abcnews.com) The Supreme Court has taken up the question of whether the Bush Administration can exempt the Navy from laws protecting marine mammals from sonar, and media is chiming in. Both the New York Times and Star Bulletin have come out recently in favor of upholding environmental law when it comes to Navy [...]
Bombs Away! RIMPAC’s Back
Posted in environmental justice, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged military, navy, NWHI, oceans, rimpac, sonar on July 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
From Marti: RIMPAC officially started on Sunday, meaning you can expect beach closures, random explosions, mass strandings, and displays of excessive military force throughout the month of July in Hawaii. Remember, RIMPAC is the bi-annual demonstration of U.S.-occupation that brought us the “Hanalei Bay Incident” in 2004, when 150 melonhead whales attempted to strand themselves [...]
Hawaii County Council to Consider DU Cleanup Reso
Posted in activism, environmental justice, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, military toxics, tagged depleted uranium, military, military toxics on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The military finally admitted in 2006 that depleted uranium (DU) spotting rounds for the Davy Crockett nuclear weapon system have been used at Schofield Barracks, the Pohakuloa Training Area, and possibly Makua Valley between 1962 and 1968. The Army long denied ever using DU in Hawai‘i; reassuring residents in countless public hearings and environmental impact [...]
Federal Court Issues Injuctions, Requires Navy to Do More to Protect Hawaii’s Marine Mammals from Harmful Sonar
Posted in ocean protection, tagged kohala, military, navy, ocean, ocean protection, sonar, whales on March 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Hawai‘i federal district Judge David A. Ezra today found that the Navy is violating federal law and enjoined it from carrying out its Undersea Warfare Exercises in Hawai’i’s waters without adhering to additional mitigation measures to protect marine mammals. The Navy is also required to take a hard look at the impacts of its high-intensity, [...]
this gorilla is at least 800 pounds.
Posted in ocean protection, tagged environment, militarization, military, ocean, space on February 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Amid the newspaper headlines shouting “SUCCESS” over the missile interception of a faltering US spy satellite in the “middle of the Pacific,” we received the following email from Greenpeace guys. They echoed our concerns about the potential of toxics and debris in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: (from Martini Gotjé, former crew of the GP vessel [...]
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