Every day, I’m scouring the Internet for land use and environmental news from around the state and around the world that means something for us here in Hawaii. Noteworthy today: Native Hawaiian burials make headlines, a Maui roadside is cleared, and more video of the BP oil spill surfaces.
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We already reported that the Supreme Court rejected the Wal-Mart burial case yesterday, but if you want more, the Star-Bulletin chimes in today with a staff report. The S-B also has a piece about the Schofield skeleton, while the Advertiser has a story on the rail EIS.
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Speaking of burials, a check for bones near a sensitive portion of Kauai’s proposed multi-use coastal path has been delayed. County officials said equipment problems, not a small Hawaiian protest, were to blame. The path is just one project that did its surveys in phases. The approach is similar to the one being proposed for the Honolulu rail project.
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Maui County made good on their threat to keep public right-of-ways alongside roads safe and clear, removing bushes and walls from the front of a Kihei home.
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A quick update to last week’s growing sand ownership story: Land use lawyer, blogger extraordinaire and Civil Beat member Robert Thomas today posted the final two filings on his blog, Inversecondemnation.
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Political pressure works: One family’s persistence in haranguing their councilman eventually convinced Hawaii County to pave a section of a dirt road, providing driving access to one home, reports West Hawaii Today. And it only cost taxpayers $82,524!
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Environmentalists in Colorado and Wyoming are pleased with long-overdue reforms to federal leases for onshore oil and gas, announced by the Department of the Interior yesterday.
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And in case you haven’t yet seen the raw video of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, here it is:
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