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Last week, I wrote that ‘Climate Change Didn’t Cause the Maui Fires, Environmentalists Did’. And the environmentalists keep proving me right.
The fires are still going on. And so are the legal battles over obtaining enough water to fight them.
A brush fire burned 10 acres on Saturday and prompted Maui authorities to evacuate residents from a neighborhood of Lahaina, just a few miles from the site recently ravaged by blazes, before firefighters brought it under control.
Firefighters doused flames from above using a helicopter and with hoses on the ground, said John Heggie, a spokesperson for Maui County’s Joint Information Center.
But the state is still fighting legal battles against Polynesian rights activities and environmentalists over the water. And, is losing them because the latter have all the leftist and ‘native’ leverage.
The day after the wildfires started on Maui, the State of Hawaii, Board of Land and Natural Resources, and Alexander and Baldwin filed a petition in the Hawaii Supreme Court, saying there was “not enough permitted water to battle the wildfires” in Upcountry Maui. The petition asked to overturn a June court decision that limited Alexander and Baldwin’s stream diversion in East Maui from 40 million gallons to 31.5 million gallons.
Over the last two decades, Hawaiian and environmental groups have fought to restore the water in East Maui’s streams. The Sierra Club has argued that permits granted by the Board of Land and Natural Resources to East Maui Irrigation and Alexander and Baldwin daily fail to protect the water for customary Hawaiian practices and ecological balance.
By that they mean growing Taro, an Asian vegetable that the Polynesian settlers considered ‘sacred’, the “traditional” way which is inefficient and requires lots of water and doesn’t work.
But given a choice between fighting wildfires or growing a ‘sacred’ vegetable, the Sierra Club and the Hawaii Supreme Court choose the vegetable.
The Hawaii Supreme Court denied a petition filed by the State of Hawaii, Board of Land and Natural Resources, and Alexander and Baldwin, which claimed there was not enough permitted water to fight the wildfires in Upcountry Maui.
The following day, the high court denied the petition, stating the petitioner had failed to establish a “clear and indisputable right to the relief requested.”
Why choose human lives over vegetables… when the head of their party is a vegetable?
This is not a climate change crisis, this is an environmentalist crisis. And environmentalists at best don’t care if people die and at worst support it as a way of reducing carbon polluting.
To them we’re all carbon pollution.
Screw the Sierra Club and anyone who has anything to do with this bunch of Eco Freaks they all should be put on Fires started by their own Stupidity where i live here in Siskiyou County in Northern California their Public Enemy #1 along with a whole lot of those Eco-Freak groups
Now the ecofreaks are starting fires when they don’t happen often enough. There’s a big one they started in Greece right now, supposedly started by 80 of them. The Canadian fires had so many ignition points they had to be human set, and a recent California fire had ignition points in a near perfect arc around LA. Then there’s that leftist that got caught setting fires in Washington or Oregon. Leftists aren’t misguided, they’re evil.
Yeah, they are using various subterfuges to reduce the water supply in Northern California also.
I’m glad that my dearly departed mother-in-law isn’t alive to read this article, as she was a life-long Sierra Club volunteer and supporter…though there was nothing better than watching this kind, soft spoken, genteel woman go off, and she most assuredly would have gone off about this.
I think it’s proof that any group can be hijacked by eco-terrorists and Gaia believers. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that it happened to a group that once just primarily planted trees.
Leftists pervert every decent organization eventually.
I’m going to take a wild guess and state that the Alexander and Baldwin streams end up in the Pacific Ocean. It’s hard to “waste” water that pisses into the ocean.
And what’s wrong with sea water? Why can’t that be used to extinguish firestorms? Maui is a F’ing island and the Pacific isn’t going to be drained anytime soon.
I’ve seen helicopters scoop up SF Bay water (salty) and dump it on fires. They also have planes that can scoop up seawater and drop it on fires. The main problem is that the salt in the soil harms plant life.
That makes sense.
There’s plenty of fresh water available most everywhere, so stick with that, I guess. Who cares what the coconut faces think. It’s easy to play cultural games when their own lives aren’t at stake. The Pineapple heads who were about to die from the Maui fire wanted water, I guarantee it.
Trust me, when your own life is on the line you don’t fuck around. You accept whatever help is available, not that I’ve ever got any.
You Simply Cannot”Make This SH*T Up”???????????????????
All life on earth is carbon based. To view carbon as a pollutant is to view life as a pollutant. From abortion to environmentalism, the Left is anti-life.
Truly amazing that they don’t have enough water when they are in the MIDDLE of an OCEAN and SALT WATER TREATMENT PLANTS are an ACTUAL THING!!! But then again we’re talking about DEMOcrats – the party OF the VEGETABLES and completely VOID of COMMON SENSE!