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Rain-forests and Geothermal Energy in Hawaii: Environmental Concerns Expose Flawed State Planning-process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Lee Hannah
Lee Hannah
Affiliation:
American Association for the Advancement of Science Diplomacy Fellow, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC 20523, USA; Philippines Program Coordinator, Conservation International, 1015 18th Street, Washington, DC 20036, USA.
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Protests and legal challenges have marked the past seven years of geothermal energy development in Hawaii. Environmentalists seeking to block geothermal development in Hawaiian rain-forests have used legal and civil disobedience tactics to delay development. These are the types of actions which the Hawaii State Legislature sought to avoid when it passed the State's Geothermal Subzone Act in 1983.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1990 , pp. 239 - 244
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1990

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