Groups Unite Against Superferry
By Honolulu Advertiser Kauai Bureau Editor Jan TenBruggencate
The Hawaii Superferry has created an alignment of interests that may be unique in political activism for the wide range of people and groups involved.
In the crowd that gathered against the ferry on Kaua’i on Sunday were protesters who cited the vessel’s fuel inefficiency, the danger to marine life from its speed, the fear that alien invasive species will be carried to the island, concerns that O’ahu folks will crowd Kaua’i beaches and surf breaks, that traffic will be worsened, that criminals will arrive with drugs, and so on. Continue Reading
This article was published in the Honolulu Advertiser on August 28, 2007.