Will the Maui Fires be a Wake-Up Call on Public Power?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 27 August 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Hawaii needs to move on this quick, before other for-profit utilities get into the act. The corporate raiders will soon be circling, even as Lahaina buries its dead. Is Geoengineering a quick climate change fix?
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| 0:28.2 | This is the Tom Hartman program. And greetings, my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth, |
| 0:50.8 | and justice, believers in peace, freedom, and the American way. The question for today is, |
| 0:57.3 | will the Maui fires be a wake-up call on public power? You know, we saw this with PG&E right? |
| 1:04.5 | They wanted to transfer millions, hundreds of millions of dollars out of their profits into |
| 1:10.5 | the pockets of their CEO, their senior executives, and via dividends through their, you know, |
| 1:16.6 | to their investors. And so they cut back on trimming trees and burying power lines in areas where |
| 1:24.2 | there was big wildfire risk. And the result of that was, among other things, the Paradise Fire |
| 1:29.0 | and a few others that killed a whole bunch of people in California. PG&E got sued for this. They're |
| 1:34.9 | having to pay out something like $5 billion. I mean, just massive amounts in these lawsuits. |
| 1:41.2 | Well, if the public reporting that we're seeing is accurate, and keep in mind, this is early times, |
| 1:48.6 | this is tentative, we really don't know for sure what happened or what caused these fires. |
| 1:54.1 | But that said, you know, there is video of power lines going down, arcing and appearing to |
| 2:01.1 | ignite fires in Maui, you know, in this town and others in Maui. And if that's the case, |
| 2:08.4 | and it's also being reported that Hawaiian Electric, the pretty much sole utility for the entire |
| 2:15.6 | state, all those islands, that that electric company had no plan to shut off power in the event |
| 2:22.3 | of high winds, which is nuts. Now, why would that be? Well, you know, there are two kinds, |
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