Quotes and Thoughts of the Week

"Our future security depends on a whole array of renewable energy sources, and that's what we were talking about in Colorado."

- Governor Lingle, sharing discussions that took place with commissioners and staff of the Hawai`i Public Utilities Commission, the state consumer advocate, Hawai`i utilities industry representatives, chairs of the State Senate and House energy committees, county energy commissioners and private sector representatives during her recent trip to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. Read more. 

"We can really be a test bed for [clean energy] industries and will provide a huge surge of jobs, clean energy jobs, attractive jobs, engineering, high tech, innovation jobs and that's really where [our] economy should be."

- Jeff Mikulina, director, Sierra Club - Hawai`i Chapter, sharing his focus on the pursuit of clean and renewable energy.

"Hawai`i, with its abundance of natural resources, seeks to encourage stewardship of land and sea."

- An excerpt from a proclamation declaring July 27 - August 1 as "Conservation Week" in the State of Hawai`i.  Read the proclamation.