Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative has to “face up to the question of climate change,” alternate forms of energy and reduced emissions from power plants, said U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie, a Demcrat representing urban O‘ahu.

That is regardless of whether a 1,200-page climate-change proposal passes in Congress, said Abercrombie, giving a briefing on the proposed legislation to KIUC Board of Directors, staff and the public at the regular KIUC board meeting in the KIUC building conference room Tuesday.

Though Abercrombie and others are skeptical about the bill’s passage in the U.S. Senate (Abercrombie said prospects for the bill there are “grim”), there is still a great need for oil-dependent Hawai‘i and Kaua‘i to work aggressively toward energy self-sufficiency “or we will be absolutely colonized.”

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(Source: Paul C. Curtis, The Garden Island)