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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘superferry’
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 »
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 [...]
Superferry to cease operations Thursday
Posted in ocean protection, tagged ocean protections, superferry on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From the Honolulu Advertiser: The Hawaii Superferry said it will cease operations on Thursday following a ruling today by the Hawaii Supreme Court that went against the inter-island ferry service. http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090316/BREAKING01/90316039/1352
Superferry by any other name…
Posted in island sustainability, ocean protection, tagged ocean protection, superferry on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Write up from Joan Conrow on the Hawaii Supreme Court Superferry decision, which found Act 2 exempting the Hawaii Superferry from EIS law to be unconstitutional: http://kauaieclectic.blogspot.com/2009/03/musings-supreme-court-slap-down.html My inbox, meanwhile, has been popping with jubilant messages about the ruling, but folks aren’t happy just because they won. They also see it as a vindication of [...]
State Auditor Criticizes Superferry Exemption
Posted in ocean protection, tagged ocean protection, superferry on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Front page news: “Allowing ship to sail without EIS sets risky precedent, auditor says.” Nice to have it affirmed, but isn’t that what we all knew LAST year? Sigh. http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20081218/NEWS09/812180367
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