Maui County sues utility, alleging negligence over fires that ravaged Lahaina

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5. Hawaiian electric is facing a bleak future- the other day the stocks for down 67%

We don’t have anybody else. I am not a fan of Heco and some of the really rapacious ways, including side note, paying staffers to take “leave” and go work gratis as legislative aid in every legislative office. For years! (No longer but not that long ago. )

But they are all we have at this point. We turned down another company that wanted to come in and certainly be predatory and buy them. There is a publicly owned utility on Kaua’i, but the mechanics of this transition are unclear at best, and since Heco has been a major political donor for ages and ages and ages, it is also unclear how we pry legislators off of them.

Not so simple.