From Marti: Big Mahalos to the people of Molokai for making the journey to Honolulu to raise awareness about Molokai Ranch’s new ploy to exploit cash for water. I was shocked to hear that Gov. Lingle allowed Molokai Ranch to raise residents’ water rates 178% or risk losing all water services. HEWA! Access to clean [...]
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Molokai: residents forced to pay 178% more for water
Posted in activism, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, tagged activitism, Linda Lingle, molokai, water on September 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Take Our Advice, No Be Hard Head
Posted in environmental justice, island sustainability, tagged laau point, molokai, news on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Marti: Like everybody else, we’ve been watching the news coverage about the closing of Molokai Ranch. We’ve seen how the corporation has tried to spin this event to throw blame at the community for opposing the La‘au Point development. The same tactic was tried with Superferry. But, I gotta say, it still ain’t working. [...]
Words from Molokai: “This island has a chance…”
Posted in activism, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged development, la'au, molokai, sustainability on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By now, most of everyone has heard the news of the surprise announcement of the Molokai Ranch shut down. On the last days events, a few words to share from from Kahualaulani on Molokai: We are still sorting it all out over here. And while it is a shock, it is not really a surprise…Molokai [...]
200 Luxury Estates a good thing for Molokai?
Posted in activism, environmental justice, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged access, development, laau point, molokai, monk seals, shoreline on March 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
From Marion: Last week, KAHEA submitted written testimony to the State Land Use Commission in opposition to “the proposal by Molokai Properties Limited to build 200 luxury estates at La’au Point” which will negatively impact the environment and culture. Our comments point out that: although there is overwhelming scientific evidence supporting that the main Hawaiian [...]
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