The new ‘countryside sounds and smells law’ aims to give more protection to existing farms from newly arrived residents in the area.

The new ‘countryside sounds and smells law’ aims to give more protection to existing farms from newly arrived residents in the area.

    • @[email protected]English
      0•11 months ago

      Wrong again, not sure what part of “Paia” and “Wailuku” you don’t understand, but neither of those places has had new housing projects.

      Also not sure what part of “locals” you don’t understand, but not many of them are in new housing projects either.

      I lived for several years at the end of West Vineyard St in Wailuku, overlooking Happy Valley, in the opposite direction from Kihei, and we got smoked out by cane burning on a regular basis. That’s not even remotely a new housing project area.

      edit: seriously tho, are you actually trying to blame smoke complaints on vog? That’s the dumbest thing you’ve said yet. It’s a completely different problem with milder effects. People think they’re having allergies and going for the antihistamines, they aren’t waking up with their eyes and lungs burning.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•11 months ago

          Dude who says all of Maui is brown, going to die, and has no primary attractions left says someone else is being melodramatic. LOL

          And clearly you don’t know as much about the winds as you claim. Feel free to go door to door over there and ask people about it.

            • @[email protected]English
              1•11 months ago

              Now Maui is a brown, unattractive desert with uncontrolled wildfires instead of controlled fires with irrigation sprinklers.

              Maui is going to die.

              I already quoted you before but there it is again, in all its melodramatic wrongness.

              edit: not to mention that part of the smoke pollution was them burning the existing pipe along with the cane, because it was basically impossible to harvest around it, and it wasn’t harvested until after it was burned.

              And, again, the uncontrolled wildfires have been in places where there was no irrigation to begin with.

              edit2: It’s still baffling that last part has to be explained for you. There have been no uncontrolled fires in any areas that previously had irrigation, because all the cane field road infrastructure is still there, so the fire dept can drive right to it. Meanwhile, the uncontrolled fires were uncontrolled because there were no easy access points, and there were no previous irrigation sources located there. It’s really weird, or just disingenuous, that you’re trying to conflate these two completely separate things.

                • @[email protected]English
                  1•11 months ago

                  I don’t need to win anything with you. As long as other readers come along and understand that you’re full of shit regarding the overall state of Maui, or at the very least extremely confused about the facts here, that’s enough. You’re probably one of those who think the Olinda and Kula fires were started by a laser, and there’s absolutely no talking sense into those people.

                  edit: You’re the one who’s complaining about controlled vs uncontrolled fires related to irrigation or lack thereof. The only “uncontrolled” ones were in August, all the other previous ones since the cane has been gone were handled quickly, because again, easy access. So apparently your definition of uncontrolled is loose at best. You act like there were no random fires when the cane was still growing, which is absolutely false. Plenty of unscheduled burns by vandals in the fields, which weren’t easy for the fire dept to put out.