BOARD TALK: Groups Appeal Land Board Decisions To Deny Contested Case, Grant Water Permit
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
BOARD TALK, Continued: Lāʻie Sandbag Fine, Maui Land Acquisition
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New & Noteworthy: Marine Mammal Strandings; A Seawall Fine Is Upheld
Dolphin, Whale Strandings: A study of dolphin and whale strandings on Hawaiian and other Pacific Islands from 2006 to 2024 found that nearly two-thirds of the stranded animals died as a result of human-caused injury or infectious disease. The research … Continued
As Haleakalā Trail Injunction Takes Effect, DLNR Pleads to Maintain Vehicular Access
On January 1, the stay of an injunctive order that was initially set to take effect last April expired. This, despite efforts by the state to extend the stay or amend the order to give the Department of Land and … Continued
Water Commission Gets Dire Report on Diminishing Flows in Nā Wai ʻEhā
In June 2024, the state Supreme Court ordered the Commission on Water Resource Management to revisit its findings in a contested case over stream flows in Nā Wai ʻEhā, the four great waters of central Maui. That was the second … Continued
New & Noteworthy: Housing Fraud, Kapalua Water
Housing Scandal Update: Sentencing for all four defendants in the federal fraud case involving abuse of Hawaiʻi County’s system of awarding credits for affordable housing has been postponed yet again. Ex-county employee Alan Rudo, who pleaded guilty in 2022 to … Continued
Commission Grapples with Water Use Claims, While Long Delays Frustrate Applicants
“If you don’t make a credible case, you’re not going to get the water,” Water Commissioner Aurora Kagawa-Viviani said November 18 of the permit applications submitted two years ago for water from the streams and aquifers of West Maui, also … Continued
EDITORIAL: Water Commission Handling of West Maui Permits Is Shocking
Forty-one months have passed since the Commission on Water Resource Management voted to designate the ground and surface water of West Maui as water management areas. Thirty-nine months have passed since the date the designation became effective. Twenty-seven months ago, … Continued