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Don't let Conservation Districts turn into Development Districts

August 2, 2010

Aloha,

How often do you swim out to industrial ocean fish farms to check if they're polluting or using unapproved antibiotics?  If a proposal to gut environmental regulations and oversight in Conservation Districts is passed you'd better start! The Office of Coastal and Conservation Lands is planning to pass oversight of corporations' environmental and cultural impacts in Conservation Districts onto citizens by removing a requirement for annual reports and moving to a "complaint based" monitoring system. 

Public hearings across the Islands are being held to get input on the rule changes.  The future of some of Hawai`i's most environmentally and culturally important lands are at stake.  Attend a meeting near you and tell the agency to do its job --  making sure companies are complying with regulations.  

Conservation Districts were set up to protect vulnerable lands and culturally important places.  Don't let the Lingle Administration hand them over to developers on its way out the door.  Attend a hearing near you.

Please spread the word to your friends and `ohana
http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/salsa/web/tellafriend/public/?tell_a_friend_KEY=7518

Mahalo nui loa,

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