{"id":8728,"date":"2016-02-02T21:54:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T21:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.environment-hawaii.org\/?p=8728"},"modified":"2016-02-26T01:53:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T01:53:19","slug":"judge-stays-ruling-to-invalidate-permits-for-maui-stream-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=8728","title":{"rendered":"Judge Stays Ruling to Invalidate\u00a0Permits for Maui Stream Diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/219673pr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-8711 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/219673pr.jpg\" alt=\"219673pr\" width=\"318\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/219673pr.jpg 640w, https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/219673pr-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a>First Circuit Judge Rhonda Nishimura has granted an interlocutory appeal and a stay of her January 8 ruling invalidating the four revocable permits the state Board of Land and Natural Resources granted in 2014 to allow Alexander &amp; Baldwin, Inc. (A&amp;B), and its subsidiary, East Maui Irrigation Co., Ltd., to continue diverting hundreds of millions of gallons of water a day from more than 100 East Maui streams. The County of Maui Department of Water Supply, which relies on EMI\u2019s diversion system for 80 percent of Upcountry\u2019s water, filed the appeal, which both A&amp;B and the Land Board supported.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling was issued at a hearing held Monday, February 1. The following day she issued a minute order denying motions by the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation on behalf of its clients \u2014 Healoha Carmichael, Lezley Jacintho, and Na Moku Aupuni o Ko`olau Hui \u2014 to amend their original complaint opposing the revocable permits and to transfer the case to the state\u2019s Environmental Court.<\/p>\n<p>Those permits expired at the end of last year, but, as reported in <i>Environment Hawai`i\u2019s <\/i>February 2016<i> <\/i><a title=\"Hawaiians Seeking Stream Restoration\u00a0Challenge \u2018Holdover Status\u2019 of Diversion\" href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=8701\">cover story<\/a>, the diversions continue under a holdover status granted by the Land Board years ago and re-affirmed at the board\u2019s December 11, 2015 meeting. The NHLC has appealed the board\u2019s recent decision. Attorneys representing the Land Board filed a motion February 1 to dismiss the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Circuit Judge Rhonda Nishimura has granted an interlocutory appeal and a stay of her January 8 ruling invalidating the four revocable permits the state Board of Land and Natural Resources granted in 2014 to allow Alexander &amp; Baldwin, Inc. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=8728\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[351],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-8728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eh-xtra","tag-teresa-dawson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}