Every day, I’m scouring the Internet for land use and environmental news from around the state and around the world that means something for us here in Hawaii. Noteworthy today: prison sentences threaten food security and the state plans a land purchase.

• The incarceration of Aloun Farms’ for human trafficking violations will threaten the food security of Hawaii, Kioni Dudley writes in an op-ed in today’s Star-Advertiser. Does that mean they shouldn’t be punished for using slave labor?

• The state plans to buy 72 acres near Lihue Airport, but the price is twice what lawmakers allotted in 2006 for a parcel that is now about half what they targeted.

• The Department of Transportation reiterated concerns that the Ooma development will impact Kona International Airport and Queen Kaahumanu Highway at a Land Use Commission meeting Thursday, West Hawaii Today reports.

• Four vacation rental owners blew off a Planning Commission hearing for their required permits, and one stood up the department inspector and continues to operate illegally. Commissioners are miffed, The Garden Island reports.

• The Navy is doing a new environmental study for Hawaii and Southern California. Attorney Mark Murakami told me on Twitter that the last one went to the Supreme Court.

• In tangential news, the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife says a military helicopter flew just 20 feet from native bird colonies at a wildlife refuge on Kauai’s North Shore instead of the recommended 2,000 feet. Whoops!

• If Hawaiian Waste Systems doesn’t show it can take out the trash, its contract with the City and County of Honolulu is done. Mayor Mufi Hannemann has set a deadline of today.

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