[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, NATIVE PEOPLES: Kaho'olawe (HI) fund dwindling

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Fund to restore island down to $20M
Money may dry up in 5 years, putting island's restoration in jeopardy

By Christie Wilson
Honolulu Advertiser
May 18, 2008

A $33 million trust fund set up with federal money to restore Kaho'olawe 
has dwindled to $20 million, endangering efforts to revive the island as 
a center of Native Hawaiian culture.
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Without spending cuts and new revenue sources, the money will run out in 
five years, according to Michael K. Naho'opi'i, newly appointed 
executive director of the Kaho'olawe Island Reserve Commission, a 
seven-member panel tasked with managing the island in trust until it can 
be transferred to a sovereign Native Hawaiian entity.

"We are not living within our means, and if we don't do anything, we 
will lose it all in five years," Naho'opi'i said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200805180100/NEWS11/805180380

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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