Protecting and Preserving Maui Nui’s Environment & Important Cultural Sites for Over 40 Years

Superferry: Romney’s Advisor Made Millions

From Wired Magazine A bigger maritime force has the possibility of personally enriching one of the candidate’s top advisers. In fact, it already has. Lehman is the founder and chairman of J.F. Lehman & Company, a private equity firm. He also sits on several corporate boards. Lehman invested in a government-backed “Superferry” in Hawaii — a business that ultimately failed, but not before boosting the standing of Austal USA, an Alabama shipbuilder that constructed the … Read more

BNL Landfill Trash Proposal

2 Executive Summary 2.1 Proposed IWCEP Solution BNL Clean Energy proposes, as a core element to the solution to the County of Maui’s IWCEP RFP, our new-generation power system technology as part of an integrated waste management system. 2.2 Overview of BNL Technology The technology we propose is the result of many years of product research and development, and has resulted in a series of applications for, and receipt of, patents covering the key innovations … Read more

Comments on Kahului Wastewater Treatment Plant Shoreline Hardening

Sierra Club Maui Group PO Box 791180, Paia, HI 96779 To: Hawaii State Board of Land and Natural Resources Kalanimoku Building, 1151 Punchbowl Street Honolulu, HI 96813 Re: Agenda Item K. CONSERVATION AND COASTAL LANDS: (CDUA) MA-3688 Conservation District Use Application (CDUA) MA-3688 for the Wailuku-Kahului Wastewater Reclamation Facility’s Shoreline Protection Extension by the County of Maui -Department of Environmental Management Located at 281 Amala Place, Kahului, Maui, Portion of Tax Map Key: (2) 3-8-001:188 … Read more

County Budget Meeting Paia Com. Center

April 9, 6pm Pa’ia Community Center Testify at the County Council’s Budget Hearing Tell them: “Choose the A&B land for the Service Center so we get the donation of 36 acres of Baldwin Beach land!  Amend THIS year’s budget.” And get a free bumper sticker from any Sierra Club Board member there. Download the flyer and spread it around And don’t forget this date also: April 22 6pm Kaunoa Senior Center, Sprecks Get the scoop … Read more

County’s New Demands Cause Pacific Biodiesel Headaches

Pacific Biodiesel will continue collecting cooking oil and grease and continue supplying Biodiesel to Maui Biodiesel refining operations to move to Big Island. Here’s the press release issued by Pacific Biodiesel America’s oldest biodiesel production plant has vacated the Central Maui  Landfill.  While continuing operations in the collection of used cooking oil and trap grease  waste, Pacific Biodiesel has closed its prototype facility.  Built in 1996, Pacific Biodiesel’s  Maui plant has been widely recognized as … Read more

Sierra Club Backs County Acquiring Baldwin Beach Land

The Sierra Club has been gearing up for a campaign advocating that the County buy Baldwin Beach and the HC&S land mauka of the beach.  Right now, the County leases Baldwin Beach from Alexander & Baldwin (A&B). [emailpetition id=”2″] We see the beach eroding at a rapid rate. Already the showers and lifeguard stand have fallen into the ocean.  Thus Maui Sierra Club advocates acquiring the land mauka of Hana Hwy in order to help … Read more

Utilities Mount PR War on Rooftop PV

An article in Scientific American talks about the impact of cheap rooftop PV is having on utilities. Some utilities like Arizona Public Service (APS) are fighting against solar as HECO/MECO are doing: In response APS and other utility companies across the country have launched a propaganda war against an energy source that still accounts for less than one quarter of 1 percent of U.S. electricity. In Arizona that fight became very public in 2013, as … Read more