Students from Baldwin High School will present an intimate perspective of Hawaii Commercial and Sugar’s impending shutdown in Pu`unene with poignant portraits of two long-time HC&S employees on a HIKI NO episode that is available to view online at PBSHawaii.org/hikino. The Baldwin students conceived the episode when hearing that by year’s end, Hawaii’s last remaining […]
MauiTime Best of Maui 2015: Best Environmental Issue on Maui Cane Burning
BEST ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE ON MAUI Cane Burning Is there a bigger issue than this right now on Maui? Yes, cane burning has been going on for over a century, and yes, Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar employs 800 or so people at their Puunene Mill–the last big sugar operation in Hawaii. But tradition and jobs are […]
MauiTime Best of Maui 2013: Best Environmental Issue on Maui: Cane Burning
Best Environmental Issue Cane Burning Forgive the pun, but the controversy over Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar’s insistence that the only way they can process sugar is by first burning the cane in the fields is really blowing up. Defenders point to the company’s 800 employees and the fact that HC&S has “always” harvested sugar in […]