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Lt Gov. Schatz Supports Big Wind on Moloka’i
Extracted from:Wednesday, July 20, 2011 By The Molokai Dispatch Staff TMD: As you know, one thing on people’s minds is the Big Wind project. How do you feel about the Big Wind project and the proposals right now. SCHATZ: Let’s start with what we agree about. What we agree about is we ought to move […]
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EPA Wants Injection Well Water Cleaned Up
Viewpoint: Agreement would improve how wastewater is managed July 20, 2011 The Maui News In the next few days, the Maui County’s elected officials will consider signing an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that would significantly improve how local wastewater is managed, and substantially increase the supply of recycled wastewater available for reuse. […]
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Kanaha Medical Plaza: Wrong Size. Wrong Place
There’s a large project coming to Central Maui that you may be unaware of. The Maui Medical Plaza at Kanaha, a planned six story building with a five story (300+ car parking garage) on the edge of Kanaha wetlands (in a tsunami and sea level rise zone) has somehow managed to stay under much of […]
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Cleaning up water is less expensive than a lawsuit
From Letters to the Editor The Maui News July 19, 2011by Karen Chun The County Council supports phasing out sewage injection wells, as does the mayor. But the Environmental Management Department seems to be on a different page, denying that a problem even exists. The department needs to take the impending injection well lawsuit seriously. […]
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Haleakala Telescope Contested Case
Questioning probes impacts of telescope July 19, 2011 By HARRY EAGAR – Staff Writer (heagar@mauinews.com) , The Maui News WAILUKU – The grilling of experts about the impact of the Advanced Solar Telescope on Haleakala began Monday and is expected to last through Wednesday. Attorney James Kimo Frankel attempted to get project manager Craig Foltz […]
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Sempra Wind Deal Approved by PUC
According to the June 15-2011 PUC approved Wind Purchase Power Agreement between MECO and Sempra’s “Auwahi Wind Energy LLC” (AWE) MECO has reserved the right to NOT disclose their “avoided costs” of not burning fossil fuels NO mention in the agreement of passing on MECO’s energy cost savings to the rate-payers (and the tax-payers who are […]
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Ku‘oko‘a Seeking to buy HEI
Heavy hitters join board to gird for HEI bid Ex-officials of the CIA and federal Energy Department ante up as the $35 billion plan gains momentum By Andrew Gomes POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jul 17, 2011 at the Star Advertiser A $35 billion plan to buy Hawaii’s main electric utility and quickly get it off […]
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Maui’s Energy Future – Community Meeting
Wed, July 20, 2011 @ 6:30PM Hannibal Tavares Center Pukalani
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Climate Regulations a Job Killer?
Quit Crying WolfSunday 17 July 2011 by: Donald Cohen, YES! Magazine | Op-Ed There’s an old adage that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. That seems to be the unofficial motto of the United States Chamber of Commerce, which has spent the last forty years repeating (and repeating and repeating) the mantra that government […]
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