• OUR PUBLIC TRUST WATER IN EAST MAUI

    Posted by Albert Perez on July 16, 2010

    A FINANCIAL EXERCISE REGARDING by John Blumer-Buell A question and “food for thought”: What is the estimated monetary value of the public trust water taken from East-Maui streams and watersheds by private corporations Hawaii Cane and Sugar (HC&S) and East-Maui Irrigation (EMI) over the past twenty years, while illegally depriving

  • Olowalu town EIS

    Posted by Albert Perez on July 9, 2010

    Developers readying to seek state permits for 636-acre, 1,500-home W. Maui project MAUI NEWS Sunday, July 19, 2010 By CHRIS HAMILTON, Staff Writer OLOWALU – A plan calling for 1,500 homes in a new Olowalu town has had its ardent supporters and equally passionate detractors for five years, and so

  • Ahihi-Kinau to remain closedHeadline

    Posted by Albert Perez on July 8, 2010

    BLNR votes 2-year extension to draft management plan The Maui News July 8, 2010 MAKENA – The Ahihi-Kinau Natural Area Reserve will remain closed to people for another two years, the state announced Wednesday. The Board of Land and Natural Resources voted last month to extend the closure, which had

  • Makai Watch Meets

    Posted by Albert Perez on June 30, 2010

    The Kaanapali Makai Watch program is seeking community input and involvement as it gets off the ground – Meeting planned for June 30th in Lahaina. All community members who would like to help shape the development of and get involved with the newly-established Kaanapali Makai Watch program are invited to

  • Sierra Club Maui Group comments on the Wailea 670 Draft Environmental Impact Statement

    Posted by Albert Perez on June 30, 2010

    June 30, 2010 Mahalo for this opportunity to offer comments on the Draft EIS for this project on behalf of the six hundred members of Sierra Club Maui Group. Sierra Club has offered input to this project since its expansion to 670 acres in the late 1980’s. We have long

  • Honua’ula Draft EIS

    Posted by Albert Perez on June 23, 2010

    The Maui News June 23, 2010 By CHRIS HAMILTON, Staff Writer WAILUKU – The Maui Planning Commission got the first public look Tuesday at detailed designs for the long-debated – and for many – long-awaited Honua’ula 1,400-unit housing development in South Maui. Tuesday was the first of two opportunities the

  • Attorney: Water commission ‘wilted’

    Posted by Albert Perez on June 16, 2010

    Panel: Decision strikes a balance between values, responsibilities The Maui News June 11, 2010 By ILIMA LOOMIS, Staff Writer The state Commission on Water Resource Management on Thursday ordered 12.5 million gallons of water per day be allowed to flow in the Na Wai Eha streams in the West Maui

  • Compromise decided for East Maui streams

    Posted by Albert Perez on May 26, 2010

    Amounts of water returned by HC&S to depend on season MAUI NEWS May 26, 2010 By CHRIS HAMILTON, Staff Writer PAIA – State Commission on Water Resource Management members reached a historic compromise Tuesday night, returning some water to six East Maui streams but leaving both sides in the water

  • Councilors seek to place restrictions on injection wells

    Posted by Albert Perez on April 29, 2010

    By ILIMA LOOMIS,Staff Writer The Maui News April 29, 2010 WAILUKU – County Council members on Wednesday debated proposals to require the Department of Environmental Management to come up with a plan to recycle more wastewater and conduct sampling for water contamination before spending money to rehabilitate existing injection wells.

  • Council Proposes Requiring Reuse Not Injection

    Posted by Albert Perez on April 29, 2010

    While DIRE and Maui Tomorrow were downstairs attempting to convince the Maui Planning Commission to do an Environmental Assessment on their $2,000,000 replacement sewage injection wells at Kahului, the Council was upstairs passing a rider on the funds to require the Department of Environmental Management to come up with a