HI Superferry: Derrick DePledge/Advertiser Investigative Reports Begin

Sunday, January 27, 2008
"State path set in '04 Awana, ferry talks"

	The Advertiser has obtained thousands of documents related to the Lingle administration's decision to exempt the Hawaii Superferry from an environmental review.
	New selection of the state Department of Transportation's Superferry documents (13MB)
	Previous selection of the state Department of Transportation's Superferry documents (material highlighted by The Advertiser in a previous story - 57MB)
•	Hawaii, ferry at odds in '04 over environment

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By Derrick DePledge
Advertiser Government Writer

The state Department of Transportation's aggressive pursuit to exempt Hawaii Superferry from an environmental review came after a late December 2004 meeting with Superferry executives and Bob Awana, Gov. Linda Lingle's then-chief of staff, state records show....

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http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Jan/27/ln/hawaii801270360.html


Posted on: Sunday, January 6, 2008

"Hawaii, ferry at odds in ’04 over environment"

•	PDF: Selection of the state Department of Transportation's Superferry documents (material highlighted by The Advertiser)

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By Derrick DePledge
Advertiser Government Writer

Staff at the state Department of Transportation told Hawaii Superferry in October 2004 that a statewide environmental assessment would be required for the new interisland ferry service. But Superferry executives resisted and, within two days, scaled back the project in a calculated attempt to get an exemption from the state's environmental review law, state records show....

Rest of article:

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Jan/06/ln/hawaii801060361.html


It's a start. I met Mr. DePledge in passing in the airport at Lihue, Kauai, on Oct. 21, 2007. We were both catching the same late plane out of Kauai. It was only a brief conversation, but he seemed a little bit disinterested at the time. Seems his energy level on this has come up a bit since then.

Aloha, Brad