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Tuesday, June 25, 2013 |
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Obama Climate Policy: Poor Will be Hardest Hit
By NCPA @ 3:44 PM :: 4423 Views :: Energy, Environment
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If President Obama’s proposed power plant emissions controls are enacted, it will destroy utilities burning coal, hike energy costs while making zero impact on earth’s climate...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013 |
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HECO Plans to Give Away Millions to Wind Scammers, Lock in Ultra-High Rates
By News Release @ 8:33 PM :: 4547 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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Combined, the projects have committed to sell electricity to Hawaiian Electric at an average price of 15.9 cents per kilowatt-hour. This is ... the current cost of generating electricity from oil....
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013 |
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Hu Honua Biomass Construction Halted as Pipefitters, Boilermakers Fight for Control
By News Release @ 11:00 PM :: 5600 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Rumors had been circulating for the last couple of weeks that the construction company had pulled its workers off the site as a result of failure to be paid...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013 |
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U.S. Oil Notches Record Growth
By NCPA @ 1:50 PM :: 2928 Views :: Energy
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U.S. crude oil production grew by more than 1 million barrels a day last year, the largest increase in the world and the largest in U.S. history....
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Monday, June 17, 2013 |
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Tesoro Finds Buyer to Own, Operate Kapolei Refinery
By News Release @ 10:40 PM :: 5203 Views :: Energy
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This is a defeat for Abercrombie who did everything he could to kill the refinery....
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Monday, June 10, 2013 |
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Biofuels Spike World Food Prices, Malnutrition Grows
By NCPA @ 1:16 PM :: 4593 Views :: Energy, Agriculture
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The spike in food prices, coupled with the global economic crisis, halted and even reversed the long-time trend in reducing malnutrition....
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Thursday, June 6, 2013 |
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Lanai Video: Money for Murdock, Rate Hikes for Oahu
By Video @ 1:21 PM :: 3766 Views :: Energy
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Friends of Lana’i recently launched a 60 second television commercial on Hawaii’s KHNL’s 5:00 PM news....
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Thursday, June 6, 2013 |
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No Transparency in Alternative-Energy Incentives
By NCPA @ 1:16 PM :: 4514 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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Americans have no idea how much taxpayers and consumers, through higher energy bills, are spending to subsidize all of those green energy projects....
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013 |
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Hawaiian Electric Cuts Earnings After PUC Orders Consumer Refund
By News Release @ 1:05 PM :: 4069 Views :: Energy
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Excluding the refund of MECO revenues attributed to 2012, the EPS guidance range would be $0.02 higher....
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Monday, June 3, 2013 |
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Class Action Lawsuit Seeks To End Hawaiian Electric Industries Monopoly
By News Release @ 10:06 PM :: 5682 Views :: Energy
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Online less than two weeks, the petition has 2,935 signatures....
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Friday, May 31, 2013 |
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VIDEO: I Aloha Molokai ‘Bottom Up Planning’
By Video @ 2:42 PM :: 4234 Views :: Energy
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I Aloha Molokai looks at bottom up planning ....
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Friday, May 31, 2013 |
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New Global Energy Leader: The United States
By NCPA @ 1:51 PM :: 3646 Views :: Energy
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the United States has blown past Russia to become the world's largest producer of natural gas, and America will shortly occupy the number one position in oil production as well....
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Thursday, May 30, 2013 |
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Shipping Industry under “environmental siege”
By News Release @ 7:47 PM :: 6683 Views :: Energy, Environment, Jones Act
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a “huge, politically inspired environmental agenda” which would impose significant costs on the industry at a time when it could least afford them....
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Thursday, May 30, 2013 |
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Public Meetings: HECO to Hear Comments on Resource Planning
By News Release @ 2:45 PM :: 4010 Views :: Energy
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...part of the Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) process, which looks at how the utilities will meet future energy needs....
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Thursday, May 30, 2013 |
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Biomass: Hugging a Burning Tree
By NCPA @ 1:51 PM :: 4515 Views :: Energy, Environment
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biomass could diminish biodiversity, over-extract water, make food more expensive and potentially increase carbon emissions....
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Thursday, May 23, 2013 |
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Wind Farms Get Pass on Eagle Deaths
By NCPA @ 1:25 PM :: 3888 Views :: Energy, Environment
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A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground...
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Thursday, May 16, 2013 |
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Exporting Natural Gas: Is it Beneficial?
By NCPA @ 10:54 AM :: 3025 Views :: Energy
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Current law requires the federal government to approve all sales of U.S. gas abroad....
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Monday, May 13, 2013 |
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Energy Independence Coming: US Foreign Oil Imports Down 40%
By NCPA @ 4:34 PM :: 3108 Views :: Energy
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The industry is expected to grow for many decades as the proven reserves of America's shale gas formations continue to grow....
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Saturday, May 11, 2013 |
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Geothermal: Hundreds Denounce Mililani Trask
By News Release @ 3:03 PM :: 8224 Views :: Energy
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...dismay that their current mayor, Billy Kenoi and lobbyists like Mililani Trask, claim to speak for them....
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Friday, May 10, 2013 |
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Legislature, Steelworkers Ask Abercrombie for Union Seat on Tesoro Refinery Task Force
By News Release @ 11:10 PM :: 4101 Views :: Energy
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...urges Governor Neil Abercrombie to add a USW Local 12-591 member to the Hawaii Refinery Task Force and to broaden the issues the task force will review....
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Friday, May 10, 2013 |
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Tesoro Bidder: Dismantle Refinery, Ship it to China
By Selected News Articles @ 1:20 PM :: 5869 Views :: Energy, Jones Act
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“It’s not the easiest place in the world to do business,” one market source said of Hawaii.....
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Friday, May 10, 2013 |
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Hawaii Gas delays LNG shipping container program
By Michael Hansen @ 3:25 AM :: 8540 Views :: Energy, Jones Act
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Hawaii Gas says they withdrew their LNG shipping container application with the PUC so that they can concentrate on another application with the PUC covering a new naphtha feedstock agreement with Tesoro....
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Saturday, May 4, 2013 |
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Gasoline Consumption Drops Sharply
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 8:57 PM :: 5947 Views :: Energy, Environment, Economy
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If this pattern is sustained, then all climate initiatives need to be shelved... "2040 targets" are already met!
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Saturday, May 4, 2013 |
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$2.5M Per Job: Honeywell CEO Defensive About Kapolei Biofuel Refinery
By News Release @ 7:40 PM :: 5654 Views :: Energy, Economy
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Honeywell CEO "Comfortable" Taking $25 Million from Taxpayers to Create Only Ten Jobs....
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013 |
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HECO: Renewables Hit 13.9% for 2012
By News Release @ 12:10 AM :: 3823 Views :: Energy
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The 13.9 percent achievement was an improvement over the 12 percent reported for 2011....
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Sunday, April 28, 2013 |
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House, Senate Approve Resolution Challenging Big Cable, Big Wind
By News Release @ 1:31 PM :: 4260 Views :: Energy
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Governor is requested to engage and work with Lanai, Molokai, and the other neighbor island communities when formulating energy policy ....
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Sunday, April 28, 2013 |
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As CEO Pay Hits $5.8M, Hawaiian Electric Flunks Executive Compensation Scorecard
By Andrew Walden @ 12:51 AM :: 4512 Views :: Energy
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... Do HEI execs have their own private "decoupling" scheme?
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Monday, April 22, 2013 |
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Oahu Biofuel Plant: Honeywell CEO to Face Questions
By Andrew Walden @ 3:27 PM :: 3998 Views :: Energy
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...the $25 million taxpayer gift was specifically allocated for a biofuels demonstration plant to be built on Oahu....
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Friday, April 19, 2013 |
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President Obama’s Budget Proposes to Make Wind and Solar Subsidies Permanent
By Selected News Articles @ 11:39 PM :: 3674 Views :: Energy
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Subsidies for renewable energy and energy efficiency total $23 billion over ten years....
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Thursday, April 18, 2013 |
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30 Years of Junk Science, from SDI to Fracking
By Selected News Articles @ 11:04 AM :: 4656 Views :: Energy, Environment
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“there are a few wealthy families with strong political connections who are looking to keep the state impoverished without any development, for selfish reasons.”
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013 |
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Hawaii Utilities Rank in Top 10 for Solar
By News Release @ 9:53 PM :: 4918 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics
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... the Top 10 American electric utilities that have added the most new solar power ....
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013 |
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Investigating the Potential for Seawater Air Conditioning in Waikiki
By UHERO @ 3:59 AM :: 4562 Views :: Energy
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....SWAC may be more costly than other efficiency/conservation options....
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Thursday, April 11, 2013 |
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States Show Folly of Energy Mandates
By NCPA @ 1:21 PM :: 3112 Views :: Energy
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The increased energy costs produced by renewable mandates are passed along to consumers in the form of higher utility bills....
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Thursday, April 11, 2013 |
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Countdown to Climate Change: It's Only 297 Years Away!
By NCPA @ 12:12 PM :: 4411 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Climatologists have suffered numerous blows to their reputation as evidence continues to emerge about data altering and a plethora of half-truths used as propaganda....
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013 |
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Hydraulic Fracturing Could Jumpstart Economy
By NCPA @ 1:09 PM :: 3543 Views :: Energy
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...The reduction in natural gas prices has also led to decreasing electricity prices ....
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013 |
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Gut and Replace: Committee Chairs 2 - Committee Members 0
By Selected News Articles @ 1:01 PM :: 5866 Views :: Energy, Hawaii State Government
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...without posting any proposed drafts for public notice, the Committees amended the bill to add over 40 pages on geothermal development....
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013 |
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Hearing Today: HCR189/HR150 Alternatives to Big Wind, Big Cable
By News Release @ 10:34 AM :: 4505 Views :: Energy
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This Resolution urges the Governor and Public Utilities Commission to seek alternatives to the windmills and undersea cable proposed for Molokai and Lanai....
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013 |
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US Oil, Gas Production Soars
By Selected News Articles @ 8:33 AM :: 3511 Views :: Energy
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...the biggest annual increase since U.S. oil production began in 1859....
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Saturday, April 6, 2013 |
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GAO: Wind Farms Double Dipping on Federal Cash Giveaways
By News Release @ 1:42 PM :: 5426 Views :: Energy
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"We should eliminate duplication, not throw more money at overlapping initiatives."
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Friday, April 5, 2013 |
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Draining the General Fund: Solar Permits up 49%
By News Release @ 1:25 PM :: 5583 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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Year-to-date, Honolulu’s total number of residential PV permits reached 2,922, a 49.0% increase from the same period last year....
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Friday, April 5, 2013 |
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Department of Energy Awarding Billions in Energy Subsidies Despite Sequester
By NCPA @ 12:23 PM :: 4386 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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More than $1.2 billion in cash payments has been awarded to renewable energy projects since the beginning of the year....
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Thursday, April 4, 2013 |
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Lingle Joins US Energy Security Council
By News Release @ 1:31 PM :: 4734 Views :: Energy
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The Council is the highest level extra-governmental group ever convened to address the energy security challenge facing America....
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013 |
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Want a Fine Electric Car? Not in Hawaii
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 1:50 PM :: 4726 Views :: Energy
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...the true cost to own a base Tesla S in Hawaii is 17% more than California and 34% more than Colorado....
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Monday, April 1, 2013 |
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Today's top headlines for Lanai: News or April Fools?
By Selected News Articles @ 1:51 PM :: 6189 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Neil Abercrombie made his second visit to Lana`i in 3 years to announce that he “...gets it...."
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Friday, March 29, 2013 |
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VIDEO: Kalaeloa Solar Illegal Heavy Equipment Crushes Hawaiian Caves
By Video @ 12:10 PM :: 7495 Views :: Energy, Hawaii History
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Heavy Trucks In Violation Of Programmatic Agreement. Karst Caves And Sinkholes Get Flooded....
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Friday, March 29, 2013 |
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After Waiving $18M, City Again Begins Collecting Solar Inspection Fees
By News Release @ 2:29 AM :: 6280 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy
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The City will begin collecting fees on building permits issued for photovoltaic (PV) solar electric power systems effective April 6....
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Sunday, March 24, 2013 |
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Company With Ties to Abercrombie, DelaCruz Seeks $200M from Legislature
By Andrew Walden @ 8:26 PM :: 11334 Views :: Energy, Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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According to his Senate website, Sen DelaCruz is “Director of Communications at WCIT.”
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Friday, March 22, 2013 |
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Biofuel: Hawaiian Electric Agrees to Drop Rate Hike
By News Release @ 12:45 PM :: 6140 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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...As part of the settlement, Hawaiian Electric Company agreed to write off $40 million in costs for two major projects: the 110-megawatt biofuel generating station at Campbell Industrial Park and the companies’ new customer information system....
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013 |
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5,000 Petition Abercrombie to Keep Tesoro Open
By News Release @ 8:25 PM :: 5761 Views :: Energy, Labor
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...The USW expects a response from the governor....
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