Looking for a landfill site

[Glen Miyashiro]

Rod Tam is at it again. When he was in the State Legislature, he suggested that state workers should be entitled to state-funded snacks and naps while on duty. Now, as a Honolulu City Councilman, he goes and proposes to site a new landfill inside Koko Crater. What else is this buffoon going to do?

I am getting disgusted with the Council's unwillingness to actually make a decision on a new landfill site. It's obvious that they are running scared because they fear that voting for a site in their district will be political suicide. What chickens.

[Vanguard]

Re: Looking for a landfill site

Perhaps he wants to get fired so he can live off his pension and watch Deep Space Nine reruns on SpikeTV?

:Shrug:

[pzarquon]

Re: Looking for a landfill site

I couldn't believe the curveball the City Council panel threw with their "none of the above" answer to the landfill question. It's exactly the kind of hard decision we need elected leaders to make (each of the studied options would have made someone mad), and they all sidestepped in lockstep.

It would be funny if it wasn't such a serious issue. It's like the ending to a bad Disney TV movie. "We had all these awful choices, but then a little fairy flew in and gave us an answer no one had thought of before!"

Except, of course, instead of "Happily Ever After," we get, "What The F***?"

[Miulang]

Re: Looking for a landfill site

Well, I think Washington State would still be interested in having your garbage shipped up here...for a price!

Miulang

[Glen Miyashiro]

Re: Looking for a landfill site

Yeah, but your governor would have to approve first. Who would that be? Oh wait, you still don't know.

[Miulang]

Re: Looking for a landfill site

Yeah, but your governor would have to approve first. Who would that be? Oh wait, you still don't know.

Actually, we do know. Kinda. Sorta. As of 5 p.m. today, Dino Rossi (R) won the recount by 42 votes statewide out of 2 million ballots cast. Christine Gregoire and the Dems want a manual recount of key counties (e.g., King, which is the Gregoire stronghold). I think Gregoire should just concede and give Rossi the "mandate" the Republicans think they got from the voters.
Heh. Even within this state, we got blue counties and red counties!

It's not like having a Republican governor here is gonna do much in the next 4 years anyway. The state Senate and House are pretty much still controlled by the Dems.

Miulang

[adrian]

Re: Looking for a landfill site

Yeah, why we don't ship off our trash?

Where else are we going to dump our trash? Niihau? Kahoolawe?

[craigwatanabe]

Re: Looking for a landfill site

How about Rod Tam's backyard. Seems fitting for a guy who only talks trash.

[Linkmeister]

Re: Looking for a landfill site

No, no, no. Rod and Ann K. have now introduced a bill saying there shouldn't be any landfills on Oahu.

Tam and Councilwoman Ann Kobayashi also introduced a new possibility: they sponsored a bill that would ban all city landfills from the island, and scheduled it for a preliminary vote Wednesday.

From yesterday's paper.

Mush for brains, or what?

[Glen Miyashiro]

Re: Looking for a landfill site

Aha, I've got it. Ann Kobayashi is trying to have the Council act so crazy that the public will give up on hoping that the Council will make a decision, and instead force Mayor Jeremy Harris to make the decision right now, before he leaves office, thus taking the pressure off of her good friend Mufi Hannemann to do so once he's sworn in. Now it all makes sense.

[Linkmeister]

Re: Looking for a landfill site

Glen, you may think you're joking, but given her past performance that's not out of the question at all. Furthermore, Jeremy said yesterday he was quite prepared to make the decision if they couldn't behave like grownup elected officials.

[craigwatanabe]

Re: Looking for a landfill site

well it's not as if making those "hard" decisions will affect his chances for the Mayor's seat again.

[Miulang]

Re: Looking for a landfill site

What's wrong with this picture? It would cost Honolulu $76/ton to ship your garbage to Washington State and $82/ton to truck it to the HPOWER plant or to the current landfill in Waimanalo? The City and County actually makes $70/ton from the private garbage haulers now because it only costs $12 to run your landfill. Lose money or lose land for development: that appears to be the tradeoff your City Council has to make.

Miulang

http://starbulletin.com/2004/11/29/news/index1.html

[kimo55]

Re: Looking for a landfill site

no shame, no shame...

Typical fraudulent inept Hawaii state government at work:
Kokohead crater was given to the state as a preserve.
for the preservation and cultivation of rare and endangered plants
This was the stipulation in the giving.

and now, they openly discuss turning it into a garbage dump.

Nothing is sacred anymore here in Hawaii. All land and priviledges taken away from kanaka maoli and we turn these islands into an over-run, overbuilt overpopulated polluted mess.

[Glen Miyashiro]

Re: Looking for a landfill site

The Honolulu City Council is having a hearing today -- actually, right now! -- and the proposed landfill is Item #38 on the agenda. If you're a true masochist for political stuff, you can view a live webcam of the proceedings here.