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: candidates clash on oil drilling and Hawaiians fight to stop a Kauai bridge.
- Mufi Hannemann has questioned Neil Abercrombie’s support for removing a federal ban on offshore oil drilling, pointing to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as an example of the danger, according to the Star-Advertiser.
- Hawaiians fighting to stop the construction of a bridge across Kauai’s Wailua River filed a police complaint yesterday, The Garden Island reports. Part of the confusion could have been with wooden stakes.
- A Hannemann proposal to restructure the Clean Water and Natural Lands Fund Commission was deferred by the City Council Wednesday.
- The Army never intended to remove depleted uranium ammunition remnants from Pohakuloa Training Area and Shofield Barracks, the Big Island Weekly reports.
- The state’s Natural Area Reserve System would grow by 6,600 acres under a proposal to incorporate most of the former Kulani Correctional Facility on the Big Island for research and species preservation.
- Land owned by a black Georgia community was taken by the federal government to build an airstrip in 1942. Now, the elders want to know why they cannot have it back. (hat-tip
- A lawsuit pitting solar installers against retrofitters has stalled $30 million in Property Assessed Clean Energy payments in California.
- A Dutch company has plans to construct “Recycled Island” with room for 500,000 residents from 97 million pounds of plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean.
- Lastly, a Washington couple has collected 400,000 aluminum cans over six months to pay for their wedding. (hat-tip
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