• Awahi Wind Farm: 40 More Turbines?

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 21, 2013

    PACIFIC BUSINESS NEWS  Mar 18, 2013 Sempra could boost power by nearly six times at Auwahi wind farm on Maui http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2013/03/18/sempra-could-boost-power-by-nearly-six.html  Duane Shimogawa , Reporter- Pacific Business News Sempra U.S. Gas & Power plans to significantly expand its 21-megawatt Auwahi Wind project at Ulupalakua Ranch on Maui by adding some

  • Maui Fishermen invited to Talk Story with DLNR Chairperson

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 21, 2013

    KAHULUI — Maui fishermen are invited to an informal “talk story” session with Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) Chairperson William J. Aila, Jr. from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, March 22, at Maui Waena Intermediate School, 795 Onehee Ave. in Kahului. This is an opportunity for fishers

  • Body And Soil Conference

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 17, 2013

    Body & Soil Conference is April 11,12,13 at the Maui Tropical Plantation “As above so below” Registration is happening now!

  • More Wind Turbines on Hawaiian Homelands

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 17, 2013

    Download a PDF version of this public notice View the Beneficiary Consultation page for this project Public Notice is hereby given that the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) intends to issue general leases, pursuant to Chapter 171-95.3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as amended, for renewable energy projects on Hawaiian home

  • Ormat’s Big Island Geothermal Release

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 15, 2013

    From KITV News More than 20,000 Big Island households lost power late Wednesday afternoon when the Puna Geothermal Ventures Plant in Pahoa went offline. The Hawaii Electric Light Company says there was a fault on one of the transmission lines, which then released steam as part of a built-in safety

  • Moloka’i Ranch Donates 1,800 to Moloka’i Land Trust

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 15, 2013

    From Pacific Business News The Mokio Preserve, located on the northwest end of Molokai, was former ranch land and contains about five miles of rugged shoreline, native coastal strand and dune ecosystems, seasonal wetland and several ancient Hawaiian sites.

  • Atrazine Used on Cane Contaminates Water Supplies

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 11, 2013

    For years, Hilo residents’ drinking water has been contaminated with the chemical atrazine — a popular weed killer used on thousands of acres of sugar cane fields that lined the landscape up until a couple of decades ago.

  • Webinar on Maui Renewable Energy & Storage

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 10, 2013

    ESTAP Webinar: Briefing on Sandia’s Maui Energy Storage Study On March 6, 2013, in ECIS, Energy, News, Photovoltaic, Renewable Energy, Solar March 6, 2013 14:00 — 15:00 Eastern The Energy Storage Technology Advancement Partnership project of the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA) and the Department of Energy is presenting a

  • Comments Due on Airport Changes

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 8, 2013

    OEQC BULLETIN   FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013 http://oeqc.doh.hawaii.gov/Shared%20Documents/Environmental_Notice/current_issue.pdf       Comments are due by Monday, April 8, 2013 Maui Kahului Airport Improvements with Planned Consolidated Car Rental Facility A Consolidated Rental Car (ConRAC) Facility at the Kahului Airport is proposed to provide the space for the on-Airport rental car companies to accommodate

  • Maui Weekly: Developer History

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 7, 2013

    March 7, 2013  Maui Weekly http://www.mauiweekly.com/page/content.detail/id/511012/Connect-the-Dots.html?nav=13 Connect the Dots Real estate, construction, politics and the development of Maui Susan Halas – Senior Contributing Writer , The Maui Weekly “In the years following WWII, Maui steadily lost population. But by the late 1960s, with the coming of jet airlines, the Valley