• Sea Level Rise Threatens Maui

    Posted by Albert Perez on April 24, 2013

    Sea-level rise (SLR) threatens islands and coastal communities due to vulnerable infrastructure and populations concentrated in low-lying areas. LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data were used to produce high-resolution DEMs (Digital Elevation Model) for Kahului and Lahaina, Maui, to assess the potential impacts of future SLR. Two existing LiDAR datasets

  • Rain Decreasing in Hawai’i

    Posted by Albert Perez on April 24, 2013

    Rain In Hawaii On The Decline April 24, 2013 http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112829666/global-warming-could-lessen-rain-for-hawaii-042413/ It has happened almost imperceptibly, but rainfall over the Hawaiian Islands has been in decline since 1978. According to a team of scientists at the University of Hawaii, Manoa (UHM) and the University of Colorado, Boulder, this trend is likely

  • Sierra Club etc. File in Liquified Natural Gas Import Docket

    Posted by Albert Perez on April 18, 2013

    The Gas Company, dba Hawai`iGas has filed an Application with the Public Utilities Commission for Phase 1 of 3 for importing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) into Hawai`i. Life of the Land, Sierra Club and Blue Planet Foundation have filed Motions to Intervene because of concerns that this will delay the

  • Old Maui Island Plan Maps

    Posted by Albert Perez on April 7, 2013

    Council’s General Plan Committee  1:30pm  Thursday, March 1 and 15  Comparison of three proposed maps: 1.   2009 GPAC    2.   2010 Planning Director  3.  2012 Planning Director         C – 2    CENTRAL  MAUI  MAP B         Waihee village —  GPAC and 2010 Director recommended “Country Town”.   2012 Director recommends a RGB.  

  • Gov Abercrombie on Maui Apr 10

    Posted by Albert Perez on April 4, 2013

    Gov Abercrombie and his cabinet will be at the new science building at UH Maui on Wednesday evening.

  • PLDC Repeal Clears Last Committee

    Posted by Albert Perez on April 1, 2013

    Today the Senate Ways and Means Committee (with our own Sen Gil Keith-Agaran) voted to strip the HB1133 (Repeal the PLDC) of the unnecessary amendments added by Sen Solomon (which would have required it go to conference committee) and pass a clean repeal of the PLDC identical to that which

  • Arakawa to Close County Recycling Sites

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 25, 2013

    Mayor Proposes Closure of County Recycling CentersMauiNow.com      March 25, 2013 According to Maui Now, Mayor Arakawa will close the County recycling centers to save $750,000 in the 2014 budget and because he says the County shouldn’t be competing with private recyclers. Sherri Pell, Manager of Aloha Recycling, located at 75

  • Hawaiian Homelands for Energy Projects?

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 22, 2013

    Here are the 26 Maui alternative energy applications for use of 3 large Department of  Hawaiian Home Land parcels: Kahikinui (about 6 miles East of Ulupalakua) Honokawai (between Kaanapali and Kapalua) Pulehunui (just south of the Maui Humane Society on Mokulele Hwy.)   Land Use Requests Please send comment by

  • Kahoma Project OK’d By LUC

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 22, 2013

    State Land Use Commission members reversed themselves Thursday, unanimously approving a state land-use reclassification from agricultural to urban for the 68-lot Kahoma affordable housing project. The commission members’ action came after they agreed last month to reconsider their Dec. 5 vote. In that vote, developer West Maui Land Co. received

  • Enforcing Planning Rules

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 22, 2013

    Fighting for sensible development