While facing questions from Congress over the Maui wildfires, Hawaiian Electric CEO Shelee Kimura referred to what she called was a robust wildfire mitigation plan the company spent four years developing, Dan Frosch and Katherine Blunt of The Wall Street Journal report. Kimura claimed the plans were finalized in January, but state power regulators, activists, and local wildfire prevention groups say they hadn’t seen it until very recently. The 75-page document, however, pales in comparison to the wildfire plans its claims it used for guidance, which currently run about 1,000 pages or more and present a much more rigorous review.
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