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Over the last year, the members of the state Land Use Commission have not held back when it comes to expressing their interest in becoming more involved in the legislative process. They have objected to testimony given by their executive … Continued
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On March 2, Ryan Kanakaʻole, acting chair of the state Commission on Water Resource Management, did what members of the public clamored for him to do at the commission’s meeting last month: He rescinded an August 21 email then-commission chair … Continued
Above photo: Honokōhau Stream below Aotaki Weir. Credit: CWRM At its February 24 meeting, the state Commission on Water Resource Management directed Honokōhau ditch owner Maui Land and Pineapple Company to pay for a new U.S. Geological Survey stream gauge … Continued
Above photo: A discharge from the Cox Drain in 2021, looking seaward. The drain is one of the outlets whose discharges are regulated under the NPDES permit issued in October. A decade ago, the state Agribusiness Development Corporation let lapse … Continued
Environment Hawaiʻi editor Patricia Tummons recently interviewed Ciara Kahahane, the deputy director of the Department of Land and Natural Resources and effectively the executive director of the Commission on Water Resource Management. The focus of the discussion was the way … Continued
Here we go again. On October 29, Environmental Court Judge Lisa W. Cataldo issued an opinion in the Sierra Club of Hawai‘i’s appeal of a 2022 Land Board decision to grant revocable permits to Alexander & Baldwin and East Maui … Continued