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1st Meeting of Commission on Water Resource Management (CWRM) Since Maui Wildfires
On September 19, 2023, the Commission on Water Resource Management (CWRM) held its first meeting following Maui’s wildfires, the governor’s temporary suspension of the water code, and the controversial “redeployment” of CWRM’s Deputy Director Kaleo Manuel following an August 8, 2023 request by West Maui Land Co. to ...
Ask NHLC: Personal Representatives
My father passed away and my brother has been designated as personal representative for his estate. Does that mean he will get our family ʻāina? I had the power of attorney for our dad before he died. Am I supposed to be the personal representative? By Liʻulā Christensen, NHLC ...
Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Oral Argument on Mauna Kea
Today is the first day of Native American Heritage Month, and NHLC was at the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court arguing that the government’s constitutional duty to protect Native Hawaiian traditional and customary practices applies in the promulgation of administrative rules, an issue that’s been raised in one of our cases ...
Public Testimony of NHLC in Opposition of DHHL General Lease Extension for Lease No. 202 to Prince Kūhiō Plaza
Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation urges the Hawaiian Homes Commission to deny Brookfield Asset Management’s request for a long term extension of the Prince Kūhiō Plaza general lease in Hilo. The proposal being considered would reserve close to 50 acres of valuable trust lands to Brookfield for a total of ...
NHLC Requests Additional NSF Scoping Hearings
After observing that many individuals and communities were unable to provide comment during the NSF’s limited scoping hearings regarding its environmental study on whether to fund the TMT project, NHLC has formally requested additional hearings should NSF continue to consider funding TMT over community objections. Read more here: Mauna ...
FAQs Regarding National Science Foundation’s TMT Consultation Process
Read more here: Mauna Kea FAQ
