Castle & Cook: Lana’i Windfarm Still On

Castle & Cooke Inc. told Pacific Business News that it remains committed to building the 200 MW wind turbine farm on Lana’i.  However the State Energy Office…

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Interisland Cable/Renewable Energy EIS Public Testimony

Amended Notice of Intent under the National Environmental Policy Act to Prepare the Hawai‘i Clean Energy Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement In 2010, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) announced…

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Friends of Lana’i Opposes Interisland Cable

As part of Maui Tomorrow’s mission to facilitate discussion and air all sides of the debate over Big Wind and the Interisland power cable, today we reprint a Viewpoint…

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Foundation Names Lana’i Big Wind Site Historical

The site of a massive proposed wind farm in West Lanai where hundreds of archaeological and cultural sites have been identified has been named one of the state’s “most…

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Big Wind to Last?

From Honolulu Weeklyby Joan Conrow | Aug 24, 2011 The viability of the controversial $3 billion “Big Wind” project may be undermined by the global climate change…

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Consumer (?!) Advocate on Biofuel

From Disappeared News by Henry Curtis Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) has asked the Hawai`i Public Utilities Commission to approve the HECO-Aina Koa Pono Biofuel Supply Contract (Docket 2011-0005). According to…

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Big Wind to PUC: “Don’t Make Us Go Out to Bid”

July 26, 2011 Hawaiian Electric, with Castle & Cooke, petitioned the PUC to reverse their decision requiring HECO go out to bid on the company to develop the wind farm…

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Big Wind Faces Mounting Uncertainty

Civil Beat reporter Sophie Cocke reports that the Big Wind EIS will have to consider alternatives to the Big Wind project and that developers are eying Maui as a…

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Star Advertiser: Open Books on Big Wind

Open the books on wind-energy plans Editorial in the Star Advertiser July 13, 2011 Few issues brought before the state Public Utilities Commission have deserved as much scrutiny as the…

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More Big Wind Acrimony

Star Advertiser Opinion Piece written by Jay Fidell, of ThinkTech Hawaii, a digital media company that reports on Hawaii’s tech and…

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