Green Options » environmental impact statement http://greenoptions.com/tag/environmental-impact-statement Posts tagged 'environmental impact statement' Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:33:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Hawaii’s Superferry Deemed Unconstitutional, Put Out of Business http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/19/hawaiis-superferry-deemed-unconstitutional-put-out-of-business/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/19/hawaiis-superferry-deemed-unconstitutional-put-out-of-business/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:33:20 +0000 Amanda Peterka http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/19/hawaiis-superferry-deemed-unconstitutional-put-out-of-business/ The behemoth of transportation in Hawaii, the Superferry, is shutting its doors as of this week after the Supreme Court ruled that an act giving it permission to run without the proper environmental regulations was unconstitutional.

The ferry, a monster that could hold 866 people and 282 cars and that uses more fuel than a large plane, was kept running for a year even though it never had the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that’s required by the state of Hawaii.

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/19/hawaiis-superferry-deemed-unconstitutional-put-out-of-business/feed/ Survey Says: Support for Cape Wind Surging http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/03/09/and-the-survey-says-support-for-cape-wind-surging/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/03/09/and-the-survey-says-support-for-cape-wind-surging/#comments Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:47:59 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/03/09/and-the-survey-says-support-for-cape-wind-surging/ offshore-wind, wine-energy, cape-wind, civil-society-institute, mms, public comment, eisA recent survey (pdf) found that 87 percent of Massachusetts residents say they are now “more likely to support Cape Wind” in the wake of the recently issued draft environmental impact statement (EIS) that found no major environmental harms resulting from the project. It seems that the growing public consciousness of climate change is actually producing measurable shifts in the public mood. Time is clearly running out for Cape Wind opponents. And despite the recent 30-day extension of the public comment period granted by the U.S. Minerals Management Service (at the behest of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound), it is my firm belief that this project will soon get the federal stamp of approval it has been seeking (to go along with the federal approval it already got back in 2004). In what should make for a pretty entertaining roadshow, the MMS is beginning a four-night run of public hearings starting on Monday March 10th in West Yarmouth, MA. The hearings will then rumble through Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard before concluding in Boston on March 13. If you are not lucky enough to attend, what will certainly be “spirited” events, you may submit an e-comment no later than April 21.

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