Plans for fuel storage facilities in the Pacific could offer alternatives to Red Hill

TL;DR - As the Navy tries to figure out how to remove fuel from its Red Hill facility, the U.S. government just started construction on a new bulk fuel storage site in Australia.

It’s an above-ground facility that could offer a blueprint for solving Hawaii’s contamination problem.

The military has said that Red Hill is strategically important in the Pacific, but concedes there could be alternatives.

U.S. Rep. Kai Kahele told HNN there are about a dozen fuel facilities in the Pacific that the military wants to build.

January 26, 2022: Plans for fuel storage facilities in the Pacific could offer alternatives to Red Hill, Hawaiʻi News Now