http://ilind.net/2007/08/30/thursdaymore-superferry-tidbits-sat-scores-up-and-down-media-futures-and-ms-lola/ Ian Lind • Online daily from Kaaawa, Hawaii Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:21:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://ilind.net/2007/08/30/thursdaymore-superferry-tidbits-sat-scores-up-and-down-media-futures-and-ms-lola/comment-page-1/#comment-215 Hawaiirama Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:21:51 +0000 http://ilind.net/2007/08/30/thursdaymore-superferry-tidbits-sat-scores-up-and-down-media-futures-and-ms-lola/#comment-215 I wonder if the Superferry could ultimately sue the state. Clearly, they got blindsided. And I agree with your friend's point. The cruise ships are massive and have a far bigger environmental impact. Yet they were allowed to sail through with very little scrutiny. The message this sends to businesses is "Don't touch Hawaii because they'll cut your legs off." The timing of the court decision was truly disastrous. The environmentalists, also, are notably silent on another key question that the Superferry imnpacts. Namely, local farmers have been doing backflips because the boat will finally allow outer island farms to access Honolulu markets affordably. Maybe I'm wrong but most of these very same environmentalists are strongly in favor of energy and food independence and also proponents of keeping land in farming. So which one will it be, tree huggers? Got another way to get the tomatoes from Molokai to Maui for a small farmer with a pickup truck? I wonder if the Superferry could ultimately sue the state. Clearly, they got blindsided. And I agree with your friend’s point. The cruise ships are massive and have a far bigger environmental impact. Yet they were allowed to sail through with very little scrutiny. The message this sends to businesses is “Don’t touch Hawaii because they’ll cut your legs off.” The timing of the court decision was truly disastrous. The environmentalists, also, are notably silent on another key question that the Superferry imnpacts. Namely, local farmers have been doing backflips because the boat will finally allow outer island farms to access Honolulu markets affordably. Maybe I’m wrong but most of these very same environmentalists are strongly in favor of energy and food independence and also proponents of keeping land in farming. So which one will it be, tree huggers? Got another way to get the tomatoes from Molokai to Maui for a small farmer with a pickup truck?

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