I think you are missing one crucial point. the military/Government involvement in all this.Barking Sands Missile range is on the edge of all this, Strange fish kills in the area of Kauai channel last year reported in Hawaii Fishing news, no clues how they occured! Could it have been a submarine sonar blast? Who knows. PMR is involved in the star wars defense so they will protect us when North Kore shoots a missile at Honolulu!hahaha Cousteau society did the phony documentary, North to Pearl and Hermes and got all the enviros on the band wagon of 'we need to preserve all this now!'n In my opinion plain and simple it will if this expansion happens it will be a Carte Blanche for PMR and the military to do as they like. I recently contacted Earth Justice and asked how many observers are on the military vessels operating up there and wished them good luck on getting permission to do that. I do know that the long line vessels have observers!