[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, COMMUNITY: Makua Valley (HI) ruling

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Judge: U.S. Army Must Rectify Flawed Studies of Oahu's Makua Valley

Environment News Service
October 27, 2010

HONOLULU, Hawaii - In a long-running legal battle between a Hawaiian 
community and the U.S. Army, a federal judge today ruled that the 
community has a right to know how live-fire military training in a 
nearby valley could damage cultural sites and marine resources.
U.S. District Chief Judge Susan Oki Mollway ruled that the Army failed 
to give the community crucial information on how military training at 
Makua Military Reservation on the island of Oahu could damage Native 
Hawaiian cultural sites and contaminate marine resources on which area 
residents rely for subsistence.

The community organization, Malama Makua, represented by Earthjustice, 
the only nonprofit environmental law firm in Hawaii, filed suit in 
August 2009 to set aside the Army's environmental impact statement for 
proposed military training in Makua Valley until it completes key marine 
contamination studies and archaeological surveys.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2010/2010-10-27-092.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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