Archive for July, 2010

Tavares Still Blocking Solution on Injection Wells

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Spare a few minutes to testify in support of Jo Anne johnson’s reso on Friday July 23.The Whale sanctuary is updating their Management Plan. This is the time to get in strong language to regulate speed limits, dumping of wastes, injection wells. disruptive noises, etc in Sanctuary waters.

Mayor Charmaine Tavares’ Environmental Management wants to delete reference to injection wells.

Please come down tomorrow morning to the County Building (County Council) testify in support.

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Lingle Knew Superferry Was in Economic Trouble

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Larry Geller on Disappeared News highlights an AP article which says what Save Kahului Harbor knew from the beginning – The Superferry wasn’t economically viable and was bleeding money — in default to the State as early as 2008.

Today’s Star-Advertiser buried the AP story Superferry was in trouble early in its run (7/21/2010) as best it could. It ran on page B3, although in fairness it was pretty prominent once you got there. There was no teaser pointing to the story.

Try and find it on their web page. It’s there, down in the fine print.

The thrust of the AP story is that the Superferry was unable to fully pay the required fees to the state starting in July, 2008, and that the Lingle administration was aware of the company’s economic difficulties.

The “disappeared” news is that our media could have figured this out sooner. Bloggers ran through the simple calculations needed to demonstrate that the ferry company was almost certainly losing money. Hawaii Superferry had enough money to pay for web ads that appeared on newspaper sites, though.

Read the whole article at Disappeared News

More details here.

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