Re: Hawaii Superferry - Chapter 9
I don't think Sierra Club has an agenda beyond the EIS... but they might.
As for conspiracies, since I've been having fun with adages and know the ineptness of govt and business through personal and professional experience I submit to you Hanlon's Razor:
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
When it comes to HSF it really looks like the people running the show were used to getting their way by any means necessary, and miscalculated how much support the enviros and native hawaiian groups could muster in the face of that. Once they had committed to that course of action, instead of apologizing and agreeing to do the EIS they took the advice of their lawyers who prolly said something along the lines of "the issue is murky enough, we think we have a case and the backing of the governor, so push forward." So bad strategy, probably bad advice, bad handling of the situation after the Kaua'i incident. Simply put, stupid.
I don't think Sierra Club has an agenda beyond the EIS... but they might.
As for conspiracies, since I've been having fun with adages and know the ineptness of govt and business through personal and professional experience I submit to you Hanlon's Razor:
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
When it comes to HSF it really looks like the people running the show were used to getting their way by any means necessary, and miscalculated how much support the enviros and native hawaiian groups could muster in the face of that. Once they had committed to that course of action, instead of apologizing and agreeing to do the EIS they took the advice of their lawyers who prolly said something along the lines of "the issue is murky enough, we think we have a case and the backing of the governor, so push forward." So bad strategy, probably bad advice, bad handling of the situation after the Kaua'i incident. Simply put, stupid.
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