Hawaii Lawmakers Criticize Navy’s Plan To Drain Fuel From Red Hill For ‘Missing Details’

TL;DR - State lawmakers and health officials called on the Navy to provide a better plan for emptying Red Hill of fuel amid concerns the process will take too long and pose new risks after a water contamination crisis that affected some 93,000 people on Oahu.

The hearing on Tuesday came after Hawaii’s Department of Health announced plans to reject the defueling plan because it lacks details and has an incomplete timeline.

“The highly anticipated defueling plan was disappointing,” said Kathy Ho, the Health Department’s deputy director of environmental health. “The emergency orders set forth seven elements that the defueling plan must address. The defueling plan did not completely address any of these elements.”

July 19, 2022: Hawaii Lawmakers Criticize Navy’s Plan To Drain Fuel From Red Hill For ‘Missing Details’, Honolulu Civil Beat