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

Wailea 670/Honua’ula EIS Accepted

Sierra Club Maui has submitted extensive comments on the Wailea 670 EIS through the whole process. Thanks to our comments, some parts of the EIS were improved. The Maui PlanningCommission, as accepting authority, reviewed the Final EIS yesterday. Several areas of the EIS were clearly inadequate or evasive, however, the Planning Depart staff told the Commission it was complete, the Commissioners asked questions for a few hours, and then voted to accept it. Below are … Read more

Congressional Debate Tuesday

Maui Group of the Sierra Club and Akaku are sponsoring a live two hour debate on Tuesday, June 5 from 7-9 pm at the Akaku studio, 333 Dairy Road, Kahului Candidates who are actively campaigning in Maui County were extended an invitation. Esther Kia’aina accepted Bob Marx accepted Tulsi Gabbard accepted. Mufi Hannemann declined

Testimony on South Maui Growth

Sierra Club Maui Group May 29, 2012 PO Box 791180 Paia, HI 96779 To: General Plan Committee Re: May 29, 2012 GP meeting General Plan Review item GP-2(2) Greetings to General Plan Committee Members and Chair Baisa: Sierra Club Maui has offered comments on the MIP throughout the review process. Like others we are concerned to see proposed growth areas that have been previously reviewed and found unneeded being brought up again at the eleventh … Read more

Detangling Hooked Up Monk Seals

From Maui TV News The Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) and NOAA Fisheries today announced the health status of two recently hooked monk seals.  Since March 2012, NOAA Fisheries, DLNR and partners have responded to five seal hooking incidents involving four individual Hawaiian monk seals. HOOKED – Hawaiian Monk Seals, inadvertently “hooked” by commercial fishermen, have about a 50/50 chane of survival. (DLNR Photo)   “Monk seals are a vital part of Hawai‘i’s … Read more

South Maui Plans – Let Your Voice Be Heard

Attend Council Meeting 9am Next Tuesday May 29 County Council Chambers  200 High St Wailuku If you can’t come: send comments to General Plan Committee  gp.committee@mauicounty.us South Maui Alert: Four “NEW TOWNS” in South Maui? Your Voice is very much Needed on the “Maui Island Plan South Maui Maps”             THIS MAY BE THE ONLY CHANCE FOR PUBLIC TESTIMONY ON SOUTH MAUI GROWTH.  If you can’t come, send comments to the General Plan Committee: gp.committee@mauicounty.us Here … Read more

County Sued Over Lahaina Injection Wells

From ENS Newswire Four Hawaii community groups recently filed suit under the national Clean Water Act, asking the federal district court to direct Maui County to secure a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit that would set limits on the pollutants that can be discharged from injection wells at the Lahaina Wastewater Reclamation Facility. Earthjustice filed the complaint last month on behalf of Hawaii Wildlife Fund, Surfrider Foundation, West Maui Preservation Association and Sierra Club-Maui … Read more