Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. has filed a countersuit against Kapalua Golf Courses and Luxury Homes alleging “misinformation” on water use and drought conditions. MLP says TY Management, owner of the Kapalua golf courses chose “false claims,” and says the countersuit was filed in an effort to “set the record straight.”
“The problem is not MLP’s system; the problem is there has not been enough rain in the past year to supply stream water to all off-stream users in West Maui. State law is clear: Public trust uses, such as in-stream flows and drinking water, take priority over private irrigation,” said Race Randle, CEO, Maui Land & Pineapple Company. He continued: “False claims and smear campaigns will not deter us from following state guidance or distract us from collaborating on long-term water solutions for generations to come.”
TY Management responded to Maui Now’s request for comment with an email statement saying it will continue to analyze MLP’s counterclaims. TY says “the heart of those counterclaims is MLP’s demonstrably false statement in Paragraph 164 that ‘MLP has appropriately maintained the [ditch] system.’ Everyone knows that isn’t true, as our Complaint demonstrated in picture after picture and paragraph after paragraph. MLP’s decision to sue TY and other West Maui water users just because they dared to hold MLP accountable is another attempt by MLP to distract the courts and the public from its many failings, as documented in the Complaint.”
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