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Saturday, October 28, 2017 |
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Audit: City Loses $36.5M by Not Recycling Paper and Plastic into Electricity
By News Release @ 6:19 PM :: 8916 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Environment
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... cost-benefit comparison of recycling selected materials versus incinerating them at H-POWER ....
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Friday, September 29, 2017 |
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DBEDT Community Forums on Electric Utility Ownership Models
By News Release @ 7:13 PM :: 5655 Views :: Energy
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...The Hawaii legislature has directed the Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism (DBEDT) to undertake a study on the future of utility ownership models on each island in Hawaii....
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Thursday, September 7, 2017 |
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Hawaii Braces for High Costs of Renewable Energy Mandates
By Selected News Articles @ 11:42 PM :: 8182 Views :: Energy, Environment, Cost of Living
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...HECO has acknowledged rates could rise by more than 44 percent when PSIP is fully implemented....
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Friday, September 1, 2017 |
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Cool Schools: Ige Claims Success
By News Release @ 3:30 AM :: 6688 Views :: Education K-12, Energy
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"One thousand classrooms now have air conditioning, and over 300 more will be complete by the end of September. In addition, hundreds more have been cooled using other heat abatement strategies,” Gov. Ige said....
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Wednesday, August 30, 2017 |
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Wednesday, August 30, 2017 |
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HEI to Burn $205M Helping Tax Credit Scammers Make More Money on Alt Energy
By News Release @ 3:26 AM :: 6574 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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...Elon Musk made lots of campaign contributions. He expects to be repaid....
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Thursday, August 10, 2017 |
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Killer Windfarms: Why do we subsidize the slaughter?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:44 AM :: 7706 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...a proposed Hawaii wind farm admits it will be lethal and seeks government permission to commence the killing....
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017 |
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HECO Public Meetings to Discuss Plan for Massive Rate Hikes
By News Release @ 5:41 PM :: 6147 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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...Hawaiian Electric Company will host a public meeting on Monday, Aug. 7, at McKinley High School....
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Wednesday, July 12, 2017 |
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Hawaii Energy Costs--Low Usage vs High Rates
By Selected News Articles @ 9:23 PM :: 6887 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...Hawaii ranks 37th in monthly energy cost....
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Wednesday, July 5, 2017 |
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Secy Perry calls the Jones Act an impediment to energy independence
By Michael Hansen @ 10:16 PM :: 6659 Views :: Energy, Jones Act
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“Regarding our ability to retrieve energy, we don’t need anybody. Transportation may be our biggest impediment.”
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Saturday, June 24, 2017 |
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Offshore Wind Turbines Blamed For Killing Whales
By Selected News Articles @ 9:51 PM :: 10873 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The noise generated by wind turbines affected the sonar that whales use to navigate, causing them to beach themselves....
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Thursday, June 22, 2017 |
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Hawaii Homes Lowest Average CO2 Production in USA
By News Release @ 3:01 PM :: 5799 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics
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...Hawaii also stood out as having one of the lowest average home size of all states....
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Monday, June 19, 2017 |
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Cool Schools? DoE Working to Avoid Installing Air Conditioners
By News Release @ 5:33 PM :: 6664 Views :: Education K-12, Energy
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"The department has made every effort to find solutions to cooling our classrooms in ways that are not only cost-efficient but also energy efficient..."
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Thursday, June 15, 2017 |
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No Jones Act Tankers to Carry LNG
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:54 AM :: 6624 Views :: Energy, Jones Act
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...Currently no Jones Act-eligible tankers are capable of carrying LNG....
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Sunday, June 4, 2017 |
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Human Casualties at the Legislature, Part 2
By Tom Yamachika @ 11:31 PM :: 8556 Views :: Energy, Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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...fifteen senators wanted to stick their thumbs in the Governor’s eye....
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Thursday, June 1, 2017 |
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Paris Protocol: Devastating Economic Costs, Essentially Zero Environmental Benefits
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:59 PM :: 10846 Views :: Energy, Environment, Economy
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...policies like those resulting from the Paris agreement will have little impact on global temperatures....
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017 |
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Whistleblowers: Sunrun Faked Hawaii Sales Data to Boost IPO
By Selected News Articles @ 5:09 AM :: 10331 Views :: Energy, Ethics
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...employees in Hawaii didn’t process cancellations representing about 40 percent of total orders in Hawaii between May 2015-October 2015....
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Sunday, May 21, 2017 |
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GEMS: A Raid by Any Other Name…
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 7824 Views :: Education K-12, Energy, Taxes
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GEMS, as a program, has been a miserable failure, resulting primarily in a large wad of cash that is just sitting in the bank. That’s why our legislature got the bright idea to “use” it to prop up another miserable failure – the “Cool the Schools” initiative....
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Friday, May 12, 2017 |
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Wind Power Is ‘Neither Clean Nor Green’
By News Release @ 10:27 PM :: 8218 Views :: Energy, Environment
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“There is a limit to how much energy you can extract from a moving fluid, the Betz limit, and wind turbines are already close to it ….
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Friday, May 12, 2017 |
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Largest US Solar Panel Maker Files for Bankruptcy After Receiving $206 Million in Subsidies
By Selected News Articles @ 10:16 PM :: 5435 Views :: Energy
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...Not everyone in the solar industry agrees increased tariffs would be a good thing....
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Friday, May 12, 2017 |
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Trump administration chooses growth over Jones Act protectionism
By Michael Hansen @ 12:01 AM :: 9641 Views :: Energy, Jones Act
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... Trump is not so protectionist after all ....
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Friday, May 5, 2017 |
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West Kauai Water Settlement opens door to ‘Renewable Energy Project’ on DHHL Land
By News Release @ 2:54 PM :: 7140 Views :: DHHL, Energy
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"...KIUC could increase its renewable portfolio by ten percent or more with pumped storage hydro...." --DHHL
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Saturday, April 22, 2017 |
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HECO Touts Green Energy Progress on Earth Day
By News Release @ 4:45 AM :: 6460 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...in 2016 26 percent of the electricity used by customers came from renewable resources - up from 23 percent the year before....
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Friday, April 7, 2017 |
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Ige Energy Code: Increase Home Construction Costs by $4700 per unit
By News Release @ 3:56 PM :: 6501 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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Gov. Ige’s signing of the new IECC will pave the way for the eventual adoption of the code by Hawai‘i’s counties, requiring that all new commercial and residential construction meet the code....
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Thursday, March 30, 2017 |
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UHERO: Electric Car Batteries Part of Plan to Go 100% Renewable
By UHERO @ 5:58 PM :: 5242 Views :: Energy
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...plan to achieve 100% renewable power on Oahu by 2045, subject to a 5% limit on biofuel....
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017 |
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Cover-up: How Wind Farms Hide Bird and Bat Kills
By Selected News Articles @ 1:29 AM :: 7911 Views :: Energy, Environment
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If it were not for groups like Audubon and the Sierra Club etc. making millions off dead eagles and endangered species through mitigation, these groups would probably have a completely different opinion about wind energy’s “incidental take” permits....
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Sunday, March 19, 2017 |
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Election Results: KIUC Co-op Board
By News Release @ 5:32 PM :: 6715 Views :: Kauai County, Energy
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KIUC mailed 25,703 ballots and received 6,088, for a turnout of 23.7 percent, more than last year’s 21 percent turnout....
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Thursday, March 9, 2017 |
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Hawaiian Electric Renewable Electricity Lags on Oahu—Reaches 26% Statewide
By News Release @ 12:16 AM :: 5912 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics
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The Hawaiian Electric Companies reached a nearly 26 percent Renewable Portfolio Standard in 2016, up from 23 percent the year before....
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Sunday, February 26, 2017 |
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Study: Wind Turbines Could Make This Endangered Bat Go Extinct
By Selected News Articles @ 9:42 PM :: 7853 Views :: Energy, Environment
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The new study found the endangered hoary bat populations could decline by 90 percent in the next 50 years as more wind turbines are built....
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Thursday, February 16, 2017 |
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Wind Farms Kill 5 Million Bats Per Year
By Jack Dini @ 5:36 PM :: 7217 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...researchers have determined that an average of 15.5 bats are killed at each individual wind turbine site every year....
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Saturday, February 11, 2017 |
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Most 2016 GEMS Loans Went to One Insider
By Andrew Walden @ 9:12 PM :: 8868 Views :: Energy, Ethics
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In its 2016 Annual Report to the Legislature (pg4), HGIA explains it could write more loans if only its Board had more insiders....
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Thursday, February 9, 2017 |
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Streetlights: Kauai First to Complete LED Conversion
By News Release @ 1:46 PM :: 6522 Views :: Kauai County, Energy
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The change is expected to save the county approximately $400,000 annually....
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Thursday, February 9, 2017 |
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Saturday, February 4, 2017 |
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SB1056: Seawater Air Conditioning to Become New High Tech Tax Credit Scam?
By Andrew Walden @ 2:33 PM :: 9053 Views :: Energy, Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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...the sea water air conditioning business can use the funds to pay management highly inflated salaries, purchase other business opportunities, build sea water air conditioning plants outside of the State, or for any other purpose....
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017 |
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HECO Solar Deal: Wholesale Rate Finally Equals Average Mainland Retail Rate
By News Release @ 2:32 AM :: 7057 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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For the first time ever, green energy schemers in Hawaii are getting a wholesale rate equal to the average mainland retail rate—10.42 cents per kWh....
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Thursday, January 19, 2017 |
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Full Text: UH Sued over Biofuel Lab Explosion
By Selected News Articles @ 10:42 PM :: 6686 Views :: Energy, Higher Education
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Ekins-Coward worked for the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute....
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Thursday, January 19, 2017 |
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On Life Support? HECO Wants to Give You $20
By News Release @ 10:35 PM :: 7100 Views :: Energy, Health Care, Cost of Living
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Up to 2,000 customers dependent on life support equipment or increased heating and cooling needs due to a medical condition verified by a physician....
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017 |
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Wind Turbines Are Killing Way More Bats Than Any Expected
By Selected News Articles @ 3:10 AM :: 8813 Views :: Energy, Environment, Hawaii Statistics
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In the last five years, America’s wind turbines killed more than three times as many birds as the BP oil spill did....
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Thursday, January 12, 2017 |
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KIUC Signs 20MW ‘Peaker’ Battery Deal
By News Release @ 9:14 PM :: 6677 Views :: Kauai County, Energy
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It will be the largest solar-plus-utility-scale-battery system in the state of Hawaiʻi and one of the biggest storage systems in the world....
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Friday, January 6, 2017 |
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Hawaiian Electric seeks onshore wind farm developers on Oahu
By News Release @ 11:56 PM :: 6641 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy
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The purpose of this announcement is to show that insufficient wind projects are proposed for Oahu thus justifying an inter-island cable ....
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Thursday, January 5, 2017 |
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Dean Nishina Appointed Consumer Advocate
By News Release @ 6:42 PM :: 7163 Views :: Energy, Hawaii State Government, Cost of Living
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Nishina previously served in the role from December 2009 to January 2011....
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Friday, December 23, 2016 |
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016 |
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KIUC Nominating Committee Selects 6 Candidates for Board Election
By News Release @ 9:29 AM :: 6647 Views :: Kauai County, Energy
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Members can also run for the cooperative’s board by submitting a petition with the names of at least 35 members by the close of business on Tuesday, January 3, 2017....
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Sunday, December 18, 2016 |
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EPA Finds No Widespread Water Pollution From Fracking
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:55 AM :: 6693 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...a landmark report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, released earlier this month....
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Friday, December 16, 2016 |
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HECO Demands 7% Rate Hike–Blames Green Energy Schemers
By News Release @ 9:25 PM :: 6376 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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Company cites spending $900M in grid upgrades for reliability, renewable energy....
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016 |
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Hu Honua: Green Power Plant Hits HELCO With $450M Antitrust Suit
By Selected News Articles @ 1:06 PM :: 6736 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy
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The lawsuit by Hu Honua Bioenergy accuses Hawaii Electric Light of refusing to agree to extensions....
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016 |
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Trump Picks Montana Rep Zinke for Interior Secretary
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 AM :: 12277 Views :: Akaka Bill, Energy, National News, Land Use
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...Rep Ryan Zinke (R-MT) is a member of the House Natural Resources Committee....
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