Pearl Harbor historical island to be turned into solar power
plant? A huge controversy is brewing. There's a ton of stuff
about it out there today, but perhaps the best is this article
from LA Times, via Stars and Stripes: There is perhaps no
greater American monument to the War in the Pacific than Ford
Island in Hawaii's Pearl Harbor. The naval base there with its
old hangars, runway and control tower — some still showing
damage from the Japanese attack that brought the United States
into World War II — is on the National Register of Historic
Places. Dotted around the island's 450 acres are memorials to
the battleships Arizona, Utah and Oklahoma, which were sunk.
Docked near the Arizona's submerged hull is the Missouri, the
legendary battlewagon and scene of Japan's formal surrender on
Sept. 2, 1945. Now, aviation enthusiasts, history buffs and
military veterans fear that Ford Island is under a new threat.
The Navy plans to use a swath of the famous airfield for a solar
power plant with 60,000 photovoltaic p