USA, Hawaii, Opinion:

Putting Boots on the Facts About Geothermal (Honolulu Civil Beat)

by Patricia K. Brandt, CEO and a Director with Innovations Development Group

Patricia K. Brandt, CEO and Director,
Innovations Development Group
(Courtesy Honolulu Civil Beat)

Remember that old proverb about a lie traveling halfway around the world before truth can even put on her boots?

Well, I am the CEO of Innovations Development Group, a Native Hawaiian company already engaged in geothermal development in New Zealand, that wants to help move Hawaii away from fossil fuels. I think I have an obligation to help truth finish putting on her boots and get the facts about geothermal out in front of the public. It’s not as if this has not been done before. I have led dozens of community meetings on Oahu, Maui and Hawaii island. I can attest to the community’s interest in having an alternative to imported oil.

But we won’t get where we want to be without geothermal because the sun does not always shine and the wind does not always blow. The only source of renewable energy we can count on for sure and for years to come is geothermal — making it the only local, sustainable, uninterrupted i.e. firm power option to oil or imported liquid natural gas.

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