Today’s round up: a USGS report on Maui’s streams, a USDOJ indictment for Kauai’s birds and money trouble for the Big Island’s Hokulia.
Michael Levine
Michael Levine is a former Civil Beat staff member.
Posted inEnergy
Clean Energy Splits Environmentalists
Several ambitious ideas for clean energy could help Hawaii become self-sufficient, but concerns about endangered species, open space and other issues have pit environmentalists against each other.
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UPDATE: Land Links for Wednesday, May 19
Today’s round up: Native Hawaiian burials make headlines, a Maui roadside is cleared, and more video on the BP oil spill surfaces.
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Honolulu Rail Project Highlights Burial Concerns
The largest infrastructure project in Hawaii history will serve as a test case for how the governments of the state and its most populous city deal with the people charged with protecting Native Hawaiian remains: the burial council.
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UPDATE: Hawaii Supreme Court Rejects Wal-Mart Burial Case
The state’s highest court on Monday said it would not hear an appeal to a case stemming from the inadvertent discovery in Honolulu of 42 sets of Native Hawaiian burials.
Posted inEnvironment
UPDATE: Land Links for Tuesday, May 18
Today’s round up: Hundreds of Oahu offices remain vacant, biodiesel waste can be re-recycled into soap and a lawmaker argues against selling public land.
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UPDATE: A Long History Of Requests To Develop Farmland
A list of petitions to change land use designations from Agricultural and Conservation to Urban starts to fill in the where, when and who of 50 years of growth.
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UPDATE: Land Links for Monday, May 17
Today’s round up: more archaeological study mandated on the Big Island, genetically modified crops thrive on Kauai and research links pesticides to ADD.
Posted inEnvironment
UPDATE: Land Links for Friday, May 14
Today’s round up: a windmill deal on Oahu, rock and hedge removal on Maui and a dead seal on Kauai.