{"id":8472,"date":"2021-08-06T18:36:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T18:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/?p=8472"},"modified":"2021-08-09T18:30:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T18:30:31","slug":"hawaii-wild-eyed-public-harbor-plan-will-cost-lives-and-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/06\/hawaii-wild-eyed-public-harbor-plan-will-cost-lives-and-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii’s “Wild-Eyed” Public Harbor Plan Will Cost Lives and Property"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe DLNR's Suzanne Case needs to stop hiding and admit to the monster in the room\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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In his wild-eyed head-long rush to retaliate<\/a> against some boaters who have opposed recent draconian DLNR\/DoBOR rulemaking, DoBOR's Underwood is now gearing his harbor agents up to force all boaters out of Hawaii's public harbors four times a year in order to \"make them use their boats.\"\u00a0 He is doing this with the full blessing of the DLNR'S Chair, Suzanne Case, who rules from a closed-door office environment that has kept the public at bay<\/a> for years.<\/span><\/p>\n

While it is always nice to see boaters using their boats, it's a bad idea -- and extremely dangerous -- to create and enforce a rule that makes them do that, holding them to specific dates.\u00a0 The rule, part of the misguided tenure of then DLNR Chair, Laura Theilen, was never actually implemented upon its inception because, 1) harbormasters, Statewide, opposed it because it would create an administrative nightmare -- the Ala Wai's Ken Chee, at the time, called the rule \"asinine\" -- and 2) it represented an extremely dangerous precedent that had, in the hands of DoBOR's marine-environment-clueless harbor agents, the very real potential to cause injury and the loss of life and property.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A boat owner forced out of the harbor four times a year on or around specific dates will:<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1) Face the very real possibility that the maritime conditions will be dangerous at the time he\/she is forced to leave the harbor and out into Hawaii's ocean environment.\u00a0 For example, more than a few vessels at the Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor have ended up on the rocks at Magic Island because of kona conditions, heavy easterly-quarter winds, massive swells from the south, or storm conditions.\u00a0 In this situation, the DLNR and DoBOR will have blood on their hands.<\/span><\/p>\n

2) Some boat owners may not be able to meet the four-times-yearly mandate because of illness, travel, or because their\u00a0 boat is undergoing repairs.\u00a0 The way the rule is written, these boaters, through no fault of their own, will be expelled from the harbor for not meeting one or more of the deadlines.<\/span><\/p>\n

3) Some boaters are brand new skippers and require the assistance of more experienced mariners in order to take their boat out into Hawaii's coastal ocean environment.\u00a0 It is difficult, at best, to muster help, but to find qualified help on specific dates, four times a year, would be nearly impossible and would result in expulsion of affected boaters from Hawaii's public harbor system.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But that's the whole idea . . . <\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Of course, emptying Hawaii's publicly-owned harbors of its average-Joe tenancy has, all along, been the true endgame.\u00a0 There is a lot at stake here.\u00a0 For one, the likes of Ed Underwood, Suzanne Case and Senator Sharon Moriwaki are under intense pressure from powerful\u00a0 multinational interests to hand over publicly owned harbors to private corporations who will then, under a new law<\/a>, make these public properties private property, for one hundred years . . .\u00a0 for the exclusive use of the wealthy.\u00a0 Underwood, Case, and Moriwaki, especially, have a lot to gain if they can pull this off . . . we suspect that their back-pocket rewards will be crazy-lucrative.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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