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The Maui 10
Who's the county's most powerful player?
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November 15, 2007 ELECTRIC!
 | | RANK | PREVIOUS | COMPANY | | 1 | 1 | Alexander & Baldwin | | 2 | 2 | Monsanto Hawai`i | | 3 | 3 | Tesoro Hawai`i | | 4 | 4 | Dowling Co. | | 5 | 5 | Weinberg Foundation | | 6 | 6 | Maui Land & Pineapple Co. | | 7 | 9 | Maui Electric Co. | | 8 | 7 | Wailuku Water Co. | | 9 | 8 | Goodfellow Brothers | | 10 | 10 | Hawaiian Telcom |
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Last week a buddy of mine called me shortly before we were to hang out. "Is the power out in Kihei?" he asked. I told him everything was fine. "Oh, okay," he said. "I'm in Paia and the power just went out. They said Kahului, Upcountry, maybe the rest of the island was blacked-out." The power may have stayed on in South Maui, but that didn't mean that MECO—our friendly neighborhood electrical utility—wasn't in charge. And that got me thinking: How come they're so low on the Maui 10? Well, this week a couple events—both of which happened on Nov. 7—will help us rectify that placement.
First up was an announcement from a PR flack representing Hyatt Regency Maui that the resort had just won a spot in the apparently prestigious Energy Efficiency Awards Hall of Fame, which is sponsored by MECO. The Hall—which doesn't seem to actually exist in building form… yet—"recognizes organizations that implement energy efficiency projects," according to the Hyatt press release. This is fine, fine work on behalf of MECO, though it was tempered somewhat with the news broken a few hours later by the Honolulu Advertiser that an "abandoned" and "deteriorated" MECO oil pipeline that ran beneath Kahului Harbor had sprung a leak, inefficiently releasing 100 or so gallons of Texas Tea into the water. Ultimately, MECO rises a couple notches this week, if for no other reason than that their hypocrisy is hardly noticeable. MTW
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