08-28-2007, 06:47 AM
Hear, hear! Greg! It's totally disheartening the way our officials ignore, lie, disdain and totally roll over the public.
There have been numerous hearings and small protests in the past regarding the health of Hilo Bay, followed by numerous assurances that state and federal officials were totally monitoring the situation and making sure we were all safe, healthy, and clean.
So imagine my frustration when I was kayaking in Hilo Bay just outside the Naniloa Hotel when a cruise ship left the dock to head back out to sea. It would have been totally outside the breakwater in less than 15 minutes but it dumped its filthy effluence right there going by the Naniloa. I couldn't believe the stench! And the water was actually bubbling so I pulled my paddle out of the water as I was afraid it would be dissolved in the unknown chemicals being dumped!
Yes, other business operations have not been subject to EIS requirements but that doesn't mean they shouldn't, or that the SuperFerry shouldn't.
And for those of you who are looking for the driving economic force behind the SuperFerry, I just want to relay that my Air Force bro-in-law assigned to StealthBomber duty told me more than five years ago SuperFerry was gonna happen because of the military Stryker force buildup at Pohakuloa! This was before it was being reported on locally at all.
So, to me, it's just more of the militarization of Hawaii. To which Hawaii's public gets as much input as it did from the sale of our landline telephone company Verizon to Carlyse's (military contractor) HawaiianTel.com!
Malama pono, Frankie
There have been numerous hearings and small protests in the past regarding the health of Hilo Bay, followed by numerous assurances that state and federal officials were totally monitoring the situation and making sure we were all safe, healthy, and clean.
So imagine my frustration when I was kayaking in Hilo Bay just outside the Naniloa Hotel when a cruise ship left the dock to head back out to sea. It would have been totally outside the breakwater in less than 15 minutes but it dumped its filthy effluence right there going by the Naniloa. I couldn't believe the stench! And the water was actually bubbling so I pulled my paddle out of the water as I was afraid it would be dissolved in the unknown chemicals being dumped!
Yes, other business operations have not been subject to EIS requirements but that doesn't mean they shouldn't, or that the SuperFerry shouldn't.
And for those of you who are looking for the driving economic force behind the SuperFerry, I just want to relay that my Air Force bro-in-law assigned to StealthBomber duty told me more than five years ago SuperFerry was gonna happen because of the military Stryker force buildup at Pohakuloa! This was before it was being reported on locally at all.
So, to me, it's just more of the militarization of Hawaii. To which Hawaii's public gets as much input as it did from the sale of our landline telephone company Verizon to Carlyse's (military contractor) HawaiianTel.com!
Malama pono, Frankie