High court ruling prompts Superferry to suspend operations

[Grinchie]

Source: Honolulu Star Bulletin

In today’s ruling, the court wrote: “Realistically, Act 2 was conceived, drafted, and enacted to accomplish the specific purpose of allowing the Superferry, and the Superferry alone, to operate without satisfying the requirements of Chapter 343 of the Hawaii statues. By its own repealing language, once this purpose was accomplished, Act 2 will die before it can accomplish a like purpose for any other entity.”

Act 2 allowed the Superferry to provide Honolulu-to-Kahului service while the environmental study was done. The law exempted the Superferry from state laws mandating that if an EIS is required for a project, it must be completed before starting operations.


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The sordid tale of the Hawaii Superferry continues, and Linda Lingle, Sarah Palin's evil stepsister gets a smackdown from the Hawaii Supreme Court.

[fasttense]

1. Great news.

"Hawaii Superferry has decided to halt operations “for the present” in light of a Hawaii Supreme Court decision this morning declaring unconstitutional an exemption that allowed it to operate without an environmental assessment."

These scum had all sorts of military industrial complex links and were bound and determine to turn Hawaii into a military test site for overpriced, excessively polluting war machines. The protesters were fearless. Glad to see the state court stand up to Republicon pressure.

[Hekate]

2. Kick