Rob Weltman
Lahaina Injection Wells Lawsuit: Enough Already! Just Fix the Problem
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser agrees – Enough already, Maui County! Stop trying to appeal the lawsuit and start fixing the problem! Call/Email the Mayor & Maui Council Chair and say “ENOUGH ALREADY! Stop wasting the public’s money to defend illegal injection wells in West Maui. Spend the money instead on fixing the problem!” Mayor Alan Arakawa 270-7855 Mayors.Office@co.maui.hi.us Council Chair Mike White 270-5507 mike.white@mauicounty.us Background: $3 million down the toilet – Enough Already! The County … Read more
Op-Ed: Maui’s most controversial permit was approved in only 29 minutes
http://www.mauinews.com/opinion/columns/2018/02/mauis-most-controversial-permit-was-approved-in-only-29-minutes/ Published as a Viewpoint Op-Ed in the Maui News on February 1, 2018 By Adriane Raff Corwin It’s a matter of basic human decency to show respect toward each other’s ancestral remains. The Central Maui sand dunes are the resting place for thousands of iwi kupuna (ancestral bones), but landowner Maui Lani Partners has been allowed to illegally mine hundred of thousands of tons of Central Maui sand and destroy countless burials in its … Read more
9th Circuit Court Rules in Favor of SC Maui and allies!
Big Update! The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the county’s use of injection wells at the Lahaina Wastewater Reclamation Facility since the early 1980s violates the federal Clean Water Act. Sierra Club Maui, Surfrider Maui, the Hawai’i Wildlife Fund, and West Maui Preservation Association first brought the lawsuit in 2012. Read our lawyerʻs press release here.
Submit Comments on the Anaergia MANA Draft EIS
(Read about this issue in our previous post here and in a Maui News article about the recently held public meeting.) Anaergia/MANA has submitted a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) to the county, which must be approved in a final form before the project can move forward. The deadline to comment on this Draft EIS is Tuesday, February 6, 2018. We urge Sierra Club Maui members and supporters to submit comments on the Draft EIS. … Read more
Anaergia’s MANA Project Questioned in The Maui News
Original Article at: http://www.mauinews.com/news/local-news/2018/01/sewage-plant-project-would-end-landfill-green-waste-composting/ Sewage plant project would end landfill green waste composting JAN 26, 2018 CHRIS SUGIDONO Staff Writer Green waste is dumped off at EKO System’s drop-off at the Central Maui Landfill in this photo taken in February 2016. A proposed renewable energy project at the Wailuku-Kahului Wastewater Reclamation Facility would put the 23-year-old composting facility out of business, diverting the sewage sludge that is a necessary component in EKO’s composing process. … Read more