Ports are locally owned. Local voters, residents, citizens, all have the right to participate in management decision of "their" port. If they do not want certain kinds of traffic, they have every right to refuse. There are probably other ports on the West Coast who might love the business. LNG poses interesting questions. Our state just refused to invest in LNG for electrical generation, why, because LNG is seen as an intermediate step in the transition from liquid fossil fuel to green-power generation (solar, wind, waves, biomass, hydro, etc) and if LNG gets entrenched, it could forestall the transition to green-power. Basically, we, residents and voters of Hawaii have said "No" to LNG here. I guess that makes a wacko out of you and me?