The Navy drops another major bombshell on ‘News Dump’ Friday. They claim that the Red Hill Facility is in such dangerously deteriorated state that they could need up to two years worth of repairs and an entire year after to ‘safely’ defuel. Unacceptable. civilbeat.org/2022/05/consul… Just months ago top Navy officials told the public that there was absolutely no need to defuel Red Hill - in fact, they sued the state government to avoid it. Look at the actual state of the facility with those blatant lies in mind.

This is what Pu'uloa (Pearl Harbor) looks like after the @USNavy flushed millions of gallons of water through their fuel-contaminated water lines out into the sea in an effort to clear the pipes. #shutdownredhill This is what the same water looked like in June of 2021, several months before the catastrophic leak from the Navy’s Red Hill fuel facility in late-November that was the most likely cause of water contamination that poisoned thousands of people on O'ahu.

It’s time to set the record straight: the US Military is the "greatest purveyor of violence in the world today".

The @USNavy wants desperately to whitewash and co-opt Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy for their own agenda. We cannot and will not allow them to do that. What the @USNavy, @SecDef, @SECNAV, and @USNavyCNO don’t want you to know about MLK was that in addition to being a Civil Rights leader, he was also a socialist and anti-imperialist.

Reminder that the events leading to the Red Hill fuel contamination crisis flows directly through the history of the @cochawaii Military Affairs Council’s stonewalling in the state legislature.#ShutDownRedHill #ShutDownChamberofCommerce

https://twitter.com/ChristinaJedra/status/1481023278432993282

More on the history of the @cochawaii’s history of complicity in making the the Red Hill fuel contamination crisis all but inevitable here:

https://twitter.com/oahuwp/status/1479335674134228994?s=21

HAPPENING NOW
HASC Subcommittee on Readiness Hearing: “Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility: The Current Crisis, the Response, and the Way Forward”
armedservices.house.gov/2022/1/subcomm… From the get, it's immediately clear through Admiral Converse's testimony that their plan is to "remediate" the Red Hill facility in order to "bring it back online". They have zero intention to #ShutDownRedHill.

🚨BREAKING🚨 The U.S. Navy confirmed it will comply with the Department of Health order to turn in a plan within 30 days outlining how they plan to REMOVE the hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel still stored in the Red Hill facility!

khon2.com/local-news/nav… THIS ISN'T OVER - not by a long shot. The @USNavy will likely continue to drag their feet on defueling AND will try to "fix" the Red Hill Facility. As we know, the entire Red Hill fuel storage system is beyond repair. We will continue to demand they permanently #ShutDownRedHill

The following is a message from Aedyn Rhys-King, kanaka maoli veteran and resident of Kapilina Beach Homes whose family was poisoned from bathing in and ingesting water contaminated by the Navy’s leaking Red Hill facility. #ShutDownRedHill “Water is the driving force of all nature. Our water in Hawai‘i has been poisoned by the U.S. Navy’s Red Hill fuel tanks over and over again! My ‘ohana along with so many others have been poisoned by the Navy’s negligence. They are not helping us. They have lied to us.“

BREAKING: The Military is flushing "treated" water from fuel-contaminated pipes straight into an open drain in Kapilina Beach Homes civilian housing. The length of the drain snakes through civilian housing completely unsupervised. Any child who can't read could play in it. 🧵 The drain is sending the "treated" water straight out into the Kapilina lagoon - that of course empties out directly into the sea. If the water is safe after being run through this system, why do these hastily-made signs warn to "AVOID CONTACT WITH WATER"?

Yup. And there will be more on this later, but one of the Presidents of the @cochawaii was none other than Lorrin P. Thurston: son of the Lorrin A. Thurston, leader of the Annexation Club and architect of the Overthrow of the Sovereign Nation of Hawai‘i.

https://twitter.com/Lawakua_/status/1479546764734517248

Lorrin P. Thurston was, like his father, a virulent racist who inherited daddy's newspaper (the influential anti-labor, anti-Asian Pacific Commercial Advertiser) along with his considerable wealth.

One of the worst actors in the Red Hill crisis has been the Hawai‘i Chamber of Commerce (@cochawaii). Over the past 172 years they have played a pivotal role in building and safeguarding the unsustainable outpost of American Empire in the illegally occupied Nation of Hawai‘i. The following is a brief recent history of how @cochawaii used their money and influence to funnel billions in federal dollars to the very Military, defense contractors, and corporate plunderers who polluted and paved over what was once a 100% sustainable Indigenous way of life.

O‘ahu Water Protectors Statement Regarding DOH Contested Case

“The Hearing Officer’s recommendations echoes the dire warnings voiced by concerned community members for decades when it comes to the U.S. Military’s toxic practices in these islands.”

#ShutDownRedHill The Red Hill crisis presents “the greatest threat to a sustainable way of life on O‘ahu since the illegal overthrow of the sovereign nation of Hawai‘i.”

“We simply do not have time for the Navy’s games. We are not willing to sacrifice our water for war.”

Huge news for Water Protectors: the Hawai‘i Department of Health’s state hearing officer ruled against the Navy and supports the Governor’s Emergency Order to Defuel the Decrepit, Leaking Red Hill Fuel Tanks! Here are a few key takeaways on the hearing officer’s determinations:

- Navy’s contamination crisis is a “humanitarian and environmental disaster”.