Hawaii’s Green Agenda–And Poor Decisions–Primed Maui For Deadly Fire
While climate hawks were quick to blame the tragic Hawaiian fires on climate change, some of the state’s green policies and questionable decision-making before and during the tragedy helped set the stage for a disaster that has so far claimed over 100 lives
Along with other Democrats and some members of the media, Democratic Gov. Josh Green repeatedly suggested in the wake of the disaster that ‘climate change’ and its effects were the primarycause, with Green himself stating explicitly that ‘climate change’ is “the ultimate reason that so many people perished.”
However, a growing list of actions and green policy decisions made by elected and unelected officials of key Hawaiian institutions, public and private, in the years leading up to the fires appear to have played a major role.
For years before the fires, government agencies understood that Western Maui, the hardest-hit area, was particularly susceptible to wildfires because of high concentrations of non-native grasses in the area, according to The New York Times.
An assessment report from 2020 stated that the region had a 90 percent chance of wildfires each year on average, a percentage calculated with the pervasive non-native dry grasses in mind.
Despite its understanding that the abundance of dry grass in the region posed a threat, the state allowed it to grow without doing much to trim it or otherwise keep it under control, according to NBC News.
As a result, huge swaths of the region became open-air tinderboxes, particularly in West Maui.
For example, the state appears to have dragged its feet in negotiations with Hawaiian Electric, the state’s utility company whose downed power lines reportedly started the blaze.
Hawaiian Electric had identified an urgent need as early as 2019 to make infrastructure upgrades and manage vegetation to reduce the possibility that its equipment could spark a fire, and it proposed to spend $190 million to do so last June, according to The Wall Street Journal.
In response to the proposal, state bureaucrats and regulators bogged the proposal down in red tape and reviews, according to the WSJ.
“Hawaii’s obsession with climate took the utility’s eyes off the ball,” Kish continued. “Rather than concentrating on what they can fix, they focused on the climate industrial complex and its unworkable solutions.”
Hawaiian Electric interpreted the signals sent by the state’s commitment to reach 100% green electricity generation by 2045, deciding to expend significant resources to achieve this aim, according to the WSJ.
The firm invested vast resources in ‘green’ technologies, but ultimately spent less than $245,000 on wildfire-specific projects on the island between 2019 and 2022 after it had determined that it had to do more to mitigate the risks posed by errant sparks, according to the WSJ.
“While there was concern for wildfire risk, politically the focus was on electricity generation,” Mina Morita, chair of the state utilities commission from 2011 to 2015, told the WSJ.
A 2020 audit of the company’s management systems found that its risk considerations were mostly focused on financial risks, with minimal analysis of operational risks, while the division within the firm that oversaw power-line operations had significant management problems, according to the WSJ.
Hawaiian Electric did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
The fires began in earnest the morning of Aug. 8, as a downed power line reportedly sparked some dry grass and started the fire which would grow into one of the deadliest wildfires in American history.
West Maui Land Co. requested at 1 p.m. from the state’s Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) for permission to divert stream water to their reservoirs so that firefighters on the front lines could have access to more water to battle the resurgent flames, according to a letter it wrote to the DLNR on Aug. 10.
In response to that request, the department’s Commission on Water Resource Management, which is led by an advocate of “indigenous knowledge” and has said that water management requires “true conversations about equity,” told the company to contact a downstream farmer to ensure that a temporary diversion would not impact his taro farming operation in undesirable ways, according to the letter.
The company tried to make contact with the farmer, but communications were spotty and time was of the essence, the letter asserts.
The agency eventually approved the company for the diversion at 6 p.m., some five hours after the request had been made, according to the letter.
By that point, the fires were raging out of control, shutting down a key roadway and making it impossible for the company to access the siphon that would have allowed it to divert the water into the right places for the firefighters to access, the letter states.
Lahaina’s fire hydrants went dry, and the firefighters on the front lines had no choice but to flee as their town went up in smoke, according to Hawaii News Now.
The alleged hesitation to approve a water diversion was not the only critical mistake made as the catastrophe unfolded.
Lahaina’s emergency-alert sirens never sounded, a decision that Maui Emergency Management Agency (EMA) Chief Herman Andaya has publicly defended with vigor, even as many residents reportedly did not know of the fires until seeing them or smelling smoke.
Andaya had zero prior career experience in crisis management before getting the job for Maui County.
He did, however, serve as the chief of staff for the former mayor of Maui between 2011 and 2017, and also worked for the Maui housing administration from 2003 to 2007.
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Phil
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Hide the truth in plain sight.
“Now that we know the Hawaii (Mauii) wildfire was caused by downed powerlines…”
Do we? which came first the fire or the downed power line.
I am sorry I just do not see this article as more than an incomplete version of events. There are simply too many questions unanswered about the weeks and months preceding, in addition to the police response on the day blocking the roads out of Laihain so traffic evacuating people could not leave.
The absence of precipitaion from the hurricane winds purportedly driving the fire an unprecedented phenomena we should be studied scientifically.
The huge gaps in this article’s reasoning are exposed by this one which you should keep as a handy reference.
https://principia-scientific.com/the-maui-inferno-caused-by-a-directed-energy-weapon/
The phenomenon of buildings burnt to the ground while trees remain standing unburnt within feet. Whole housing estates burnt to the ground surrounded by unburnt woodland begs the question how did the fires reach the house and not ignite the trees? In hurricane force winds?
No my friends this is a partial explanation but I sincerely hope the people who keep asking questions dont stop. There is too much mischief here. Deadly and untamed.
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Following up my comment above (sorry for the typos) I came across this video on GAB which adds to the mystery of the Mauii ‘wildfire’. Its looking more and more like a controlled burn.
Flames that don’t like the colour blue anyone?
Things That Didn’t Burn
https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/146/051/936/playable/eef24f0b058322a7.mp4
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Why was Lahaina closed to the media? Why is FEMA telling people with evidence to destroy it? The official narrative is under strain with good reason.
FEMA orders cover-up of Lahaina death and destruction
Mike Adams, Brighteon.com
A leaked letter has surfaced from FEMA, ordering recipients to delete all photos and videos documenting the death and destruction in Lahaina, Maui (Hawaii).
A massive cover-up is under way to try to downplay the property destruction and human suffering caused by a complicit government that colluded to burn families alive and steal their land.
If FEMA can bury the truth about Lahaina, what else can FEMA lie about? (Quarantine camps?)
Get the full report in today’s Brighteon Broadcast News, also featuring a hard-hitting interview with Ann Vandersteel:
https://www.brighteon.com/channels/hrreport
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Phil
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Americas’ FrontLine Doctors have detailed got a WHOLE LIST OF QUESTIONS FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES
‘Wind tunnel effect’ engineered to superheat Maui fire?
https://frontline.news/post/awaken-with-jp-other-youtubers-tackle-maui-fire-anomalies
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B Seidem
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With their messed up belief systems there will be other mistakes and death coming. Christ says humans come before stuff but not on Maui. This is how the godless live everywhere.
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CloseTheRanks
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Dude, get a grip.
This was a planned attack coordinated from start to finish.
Wanna bet a NWO 15 minute prison-city emerges from the ashes?
Smart fire too- managed to avoid burning the mansions of satanic superstars Oprah, Will Smith, Bezos, Gaga, Gates, Ellison , Julia Robert’s, Jim Carrey, etc.
Maybe they were just lucky.
D.E.W.s. Same weapon that incinerated cars in California but left trees unmolested.
You’re taking shitstain sources and becoming one.
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The use of the term ‘shitstain does not do you or your argument any credit.
I am putting together in these comments eye witness testimony and articles relating to what happened on Maui. It may turn out that it was pre-planned. The problem here is the same it was after the twin towers on 9/11. Eye witness testimony from the public and emergency services greatly assisted scientific analysis which has led many to believe it was mass-murder.
With thousands missing every scrap of evidence from whatever source with an ounce of credibility should be saved for potential use as corroborating evidence in future.
I will continue to do so in the hope brighter brains than mine now and in the future can make use of it.
Sincerely
Phil
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Phil
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New thinking and evidence emerges:
Natural News article: “White-hot Maui fires fueled by chemtrail aerosols, ammonium nitrate, warns analyst” contains hypotheses about the presence of toxic and explosive chemicals in combination to create Maui’s unnatural firestorm. Source: https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-08-24-white-hot-maui-fires-chemtrails-ammonium-nitrate.html
“Heavy winds alone were not enough to spark the Maui fires and cause them to consume some 2,200 structures and kill hundreds, if not thousands, of people. There also had to be fuel, and lots of it, which came in the form of chemtrail aerosols and ammonium nitrate.” – Link https://americanmediaperiscope.com/the-white-hot-fuel-of-the-maui-firestorm/
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Phil
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The Mauii Holocaust
investigators have put together this video compilation about the use of laser weapons in the US military, their development and their potential use today in the Mauii firestorm.
https://clouthub.com/v/jNG73vHE
https://clouthub.com/v/jNG73vHE
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