LIFE OF THE LAND, by and through its attorney, Diego Rivera (Law Office of Diego A. Rivera, LLLC) filed a legal brief with the Public Utilities Commission on November 4, 2024. Hawaiian Electric Company requested that the Public Utilities Commission open a new...
Life of the Land asserts that several reforms could be made to make the state legislature operate in a more democratic way. Committees The Legislature exempted itself from the sunshine law. We have witnessed the hearing notice being posted after the hearing is over....
The deadly Lahaina fire is transforming the way wildfire is viewed in Hawai`i. Life of the Land spend the past year reviewing fire mitigation approaches and regulatory policies in Hawai`i, California, Oregon, Australia, and elsewhere. Life of the Land asserts that...
Pearl Harbor is contaminated. The military, the regulators, and the community know it. But the military has defined part of it to be contamination free using curious logic. The military asserts that the Pearl Harbor watershed covers 20% of Oahu, that industrial,...
The Hawaiian Electric Companies needs a pot of money on hand because they spend money for fuel, operations and capital expenditures before they are reimbursed through ratepayer bills. Therein lies a problem. HECO`s credit rating dropped to junk bond status following...
Hu Honua`s long-running tree-burning fiasco has entered its 17th year. Hu Honua Bioenergy LLC was incorporated on April 8, 2008, to burn trees to generate electricity to be sold to Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) subsidiary Hawaii Electric Light Company (HELCO)....