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MECO Roadblocks Residents’ Solar While Soliciting Big Renewable Projects (?!)
MECO to bring in renewables, change gridMaui NewsKAHULUI – Renewable energy will be a big part of Maui Electric Co.’s…
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Testimony Points Out Flaws in Olowalu EIS Facts/Assumptions
Sierra Club Maui Group Aug 7, 2010PO BOX 791180Pa’ia, HI 96779 To: State Land Use CommissionPO Box 2359Honolulu, HI 96804Attention: Dan Davidson Re: Comments on EISPN…
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Seaward Services to Operate Superferries for US Navy
Monday, March 19, 2012 http://www.marinelink.com/news/superferries-subsidiary343158.aspx Seaward Services (SSI), a HMS Global Maritime (HMSGM) company based in New Albany, Indiana, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded…
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Geothermal Test Well Slated for Early Next Year
Ormat Technologies Inc., which operates the state’s only geothermal plant in the Puna District on Hawaii island, said it hopes to begin drilling exploratory wells as early as next…
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Workshop on U.S. Dept of Energy Funding Opportunities
Staff from the Hawaii Technology Development Venture (HREDB) will present the Strategic Proposal Development workshop, a one-day program for energy companies on Maui on Tuesday, March 27. The workshop will…
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SB755 Testimony Needed Before Wed Mar 21
SUBMIT TESTIMONY HERE:http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/submittestimony.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=755 The House is planning a major ‘bait and switch’ amendment to SB 755 (originally dealing with playing internet poker!). It would allow the…
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Mahalo For Your Testimony on the Maui Island Plan
Mahalo to those who attended or send comments to the recent General Plan committee meeting on March 14. The Council Committee DID hear our message and adopted a chart of…
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Council Rejects Spence’s Revision of General Plan
The General Plan Committee of the Maui County Council voted 8-0 to reject revisions to the directed growth element of the Maui Island Plan offered by Maui County Department…
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Feds Take Oversight of Ocean Energy Projects
The Energy Policy Act of 2005, passed under former President George Bush gives oversight of ocean energy technologies to the Federal government. Projects in Hawaii that could come…
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