BUSINESS BRIEFS
Ethanol facility delayed again
Advertiser Staff and News Services
Plans to begin construction of Hawai'i's first ethanol production facility have been pushed back until late this year or early next year. Gay & Robinson Ag-Energy LLC was planning to begin construction this summer, which already was more than a year behind schedule. However, construction has been pushed back again because of delays in acquiring construction permits and ethanol manufacturing equipment, said William Maloney, president of Pacific West Energy LLC, which is partnering with sugar-cane company Gay & Robinson on the project. Production of ethanol isn't expected to occur until early 2009.
CITY HEARING SET ON BIODIESEL
The city will hold a public hearing this month on a Seattle-based company's plan to build a biodiesel refinery at Kalaeloa Harbor. Imperium Renewables Hawai'i LLC plans to produce diesel from vegetable oil primarily for use in commercial applications as well as consumer vehicles and possibly a proposed new Hawaiian Electric Co. power plant at Campbell Industrial Park. The company wants to build the plant on 11 acres leased from the state Department of Transportation. Imperium Renewables Hawai'i has filed an application with the city for a major special management area use permit to allow the project to proceed. The Department of Planning and Permitting has set a public hearing on the application for 10 a.m., July 31, at Kapolei Hale. For information on the application or the hearing, call Adrian Siu-Li at 768-8018 and refer to file number 2007/SMA-35.
CASTLE RESORTS ADDS GUAM HOTEL
Honolulu-based Castle Resorts & Hotels has added the 110-room Hotel Santa Fe in Guam to its management portfolio. Castle will manage the operations, sales, marketing and reservations for the Guam resort. This is the second new management contract in the past month for Castle Resorts & Hotels.
