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HECO Claims They Can Start Inter-island Cable
Pacific Business News is reporting: Hawaiian Electric Co. can issue a request for proposal for an undersea cable even though legislation authorizing the RFP failed to pass this…
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Broadband Attached to Big Wind Cable?
Gov. Neil Abercrombie today signed a bill into law to temporarily exempt the development of broadband infrastructure from state and county permitting requirements. The law allows for permitting exemptions…
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Undersea Cable Route?
Reproduced from an editorial by Artice Swingle of I Aloha Moloka’i in the Moloka’i Dispatch
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Friends of Lana’i: Big Wind
By ROBIN KAYE The June 14 article about Maui County’s powerful letter to the Public Utilities Commission – and the county’s decision to intervene in Hawaiian Electric Co.’s request to…
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Star Advertiser: Big Wind Must Be Transparent
An editorial in the Star-Advertiser advocates more citizen participation in the Big Wind planning – especially since HECO is trying to charge ratepayers for $4…
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Friends of Lana’i Motion Denied
The state Public Utilities Commission has denied a request by a Lanai-based community group to intervene in the decision-making process involving…
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Henry Curtis on the Interisland Cable
Aloha, SB 367 would have enabled building an inter-island transmission line to connect Big Wind on Lana`i and Moloka`i to O`ahu. The bill…
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Pro & Con for Big Wind
From Henry Curtis: SB367 Big Wind (also known as HIREP, Inter-island Cable) PRO Windward Ahupua`a Alliance (May 3, 2011): “I support the interisland cable and am glad…
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DBEDT Posts Big Wind Comments
The state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT) has posted the comments for their draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) of the wind project. During…
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