Land Links for Tuesday, July 13
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: the Na Wai Eha decision is appealed and a court decision reshapes land law.
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Maui community groups are appealing the state water commission’s recent ruling regarding Na Wai Eha streams. The and have stories today.
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Land rights blawger Robert Thomas writes that a Hawaii Supreme Court [pdf] handed down Friday Hawaii land use law.
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Hawaii fishermen could weeks before New Year’s, scientists warn. Also on the open seas, NOAA levied its — $5 million — to a Spanish ship fishing without a U.S. permit. Meanwhile, sick pufferfish, , are washing up on shores statewide.
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ClearFuels, a company working toward building in Hawaii, has an investment from the Ulupono Initiative.1
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is proposing a at the site of two former U.S. government buildings near Pearl Harbor where the ground was contaminated.
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With a new, in place on its runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico, BP prepared on Tuesday to test whether the gusher could be stopped completely, the New York Times reports.
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After sitting vacant for three decades, the land that made up the former Almaden Air Force Station straddling Mount Umunhum in California is a step closer to being .
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Forget McMansions — are shaping up to be a real estate trend, the L.A. Times reports.
Join the conversation on these and other stories.
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Ulupono Initiative is funded by Civil Beat Publisher Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam.
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