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

Maui Sierra Club Honors Local Environmental Heroes

The Maui Group of the Sierra Club held their annual meeting on Febrary 2nd 2013 at Kaunoa Senier Center in Spreckelsville.  The public was invited to come and hear what the Sierra Club has been doing to preserve Maui’s clean water, ocean access, and quality of life.  The Sierra Club is the public’s watchdog and the theme of this year’s meeting is, “Sierra Club – Working for You”. 

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PLDC Looks Like Repeal

We did it!

Today, both the House and Senate took decisive steps that likely mean the end of the Public Lands Development Corporation. The House voted to move HB 1133 out of its final committee assignments. The Senate Water Land Committee gutted and replaced SB 707 with verbal amendments that appear to result in a clean repeal of the PLDC. 

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Sierra Club Asks Council:
Restore Green to Maui Island Plan

Although Councilmember Elle Cochran made a motion to return green areas to the plan (which the Council had removed), other members blocked the motion.  Here is the Sierra Club testimony. Sierra Club Maui Group Dec 4, 2012 PO Box 791180 Paia, HI 96779 RE: County Council Meeting of Dec.7, 2012 Agenda Item K. ORDINANCES – FIRST READING “A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 2.80B, MAUI COUNTY CODE, RELATING TO THE MAUI ISLAND PLAN” Aloha … Read more