With a defense contract in hand, Hawai‘i BioEnergy LLC, in which Maui Land & Pineapple Co. is a founding partner, is ready “to move from R (research) to D development),” says ML&P Chief Operating Officer Robert “Rob” Webber.
A marker of progress since the alliance was formed in 2006 was the appointment last week of an [...]

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The U.S. Coast Guard airlifted the captain of a container ship about 50 miles west of Kauai.
The 750-foot Amarantha was bound to Hawaii from Japan when the captain, suffering from abdominal pains, called for help at about 4:45 a.m. Tuesday.
At about 7:00 a.m. Wednesday morning, Coast Guard crews from Air Station Barbers Point was on [...]

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‘Marine mammal issues’ complicated exercise off Hawaii, fleet says
The Navy yesterday raised concerns about new sonar restrictions as it finished three days of anti-submarine warfare training off Hawai’i — the first such training under a recent federal court order on sonar use that is meant to better protect whales and dolphins.
The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft [...]

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As part of a suit filed in May 2007 by several conservation groups, an injunction was issued Friday by a Hawaii federal district judge over the U.S. Navy’s use of active sonar that he recognized as harmful to whales. Judge David A. Ezra stated that the evidence presented by the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and [...]

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Public hearings will be held throughout the state next month on a Navy environmental study that would allow the continued use of sonar in the 270,250 square miles around the Hawaiian Islands, known as the Hawaii Range Complex.
The 116-page study is the supplement to a draft environmental impact statement that was released in July whose [...]

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Taking a page from Hollywood science fiction, the Pentagon said yesterday it will try to shoot down a dying, bus-size U.S. spy satellite loaded with toxic fuel and on a collision course with Earth.
The military hopes to smash the satellite as soon as next week — just before it enters Earth’s atmosphere — with a [...]

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