Alexander & Baldwin, parent company of both Matson Shipping and HC&S who created the molasses has a 100+ year long record of environmental destruction.
For decades Maui residents have begged them to stop daily sugarcane field burning that fills schools and homes with smoke and gives Maui the 2nd highest asthma rate in the U.S. (Tourists don't see that because the smoke doesn't reach Wailea and Lahaina and HC&S stops burning for 3 months during Xmas tourist season)
Their ag fields use Dirun which runs off into the ocean and has almost completely killed some of the reefs.
They've poisoned the aquifers under their fields with ag chemicals
They've bought our Legislature and are exempt from "best practices"
They operate a 1952 coal plant with NO continuous monitoring whose (nonexistent) pollution control is grandfathered in. The pollution from this drifts down on our predominantly local, poorer children in Kahului.
Please google "Alexander & Baldwin - Stop Destroying Hawaii's Environment" and SIGN THE PETITION.
Taxpayers should not be paying for A&B's greed!
Read more:
http://science.time.com/2013/09/12/massi.../#ixzz2esVVFRis