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<br /> t ~.•scator. 'l, •.vas accustomed to iunFlict, having often sided witn community ,roue, that had
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<br /> use.i t~~~~a~rful co,pc~rations of environmental nusdeeds and government agencies of
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<br /> fs~.rt~'n ha >tandards, h±~wcver. the ofFcial reception in 1lawaii was chilly It seemed that the
<br /> ,xa~ ux~s ho a ante) ltim here ,acre the people of Lcilani Lstates, a rustic subdiv ision just
<br /> spa;tL ;,f the ~~':,ihcrnial pliant
<br /> Most s~.r,~•rnment anal husiness':eadrrs were?ess than convivial, PGV was a pet project,
<br /> hi,_•;;ed b~; luminaries °:uch as l ~ S Sen. Llaniel Inouye, and Legator was in a position to spoil
<br /> it `,t nne point; there was rrlk of undersea cables that wo~.dd carry 500 megawatts of
<br /> t•1ccu~irl;p to tourist-satur.tted Oahu and'btaui_ inot:}e even suught Cedcral funds fer the
<br /> ~~r:~jeCt_ but it went nowhere
<br /> II} the tiute Legator erder,d the picture in 1046, some of the Leilani Lstates residents already
<br /> had ~~rganizcd into a group called Puna Alalama Pono (rough translation. Protect the
<br /> (;ocduc_s ot'Punal.
<br /> Chey ..ad ~.<,rnplained Cor yeas ab,~ut lethargy, dizziness, insomnia, vomiting, diarrhea -the
<br /> -cry symptoms that are associated with ehronic hydrogen sulfide exposures in the medical
<br /> literature and that Legator himse?f had observed near a synthetic-ntbber plant in the West
<br /> Tetras city of Odessa.
<br /> ~ ~ 1.e~ator is amon ~ a handful of researchers intri ~r~ed
<br /> ss ' °M w-ith the rlTects of minuscule -and purportedly
<br /> ' safe- levels of hydrogen sulfide on the human body
<br /> ° r over a period of months or years
<br /> "Tt's so ubiquitous, and ~.e've had so much
<br /> misleading information out there a.hout it," he said.
<br /> "Ifyou survive (an exposure), nothing's going to
<br /> happen to you that's the dominant theory held
<br /> F._~,..;,;.hc;`•1anu,Lcg.,ipr~.~plaiu5,,health lada}~.
<br /> ;,:r~ : ~ ~f r~cLi, n!- nc;u the Pun:, Genthcrnal
<br /> . , ~Iln;_ rLln~n; the i.;o ~.Iand G.+_ncc "'ill thl' Ci'gl1lalUi'y agfnC.CS 5t111 hOli.i t0 that ~dmC
<br /> r'onfer~_n.c nt 1he Vn,~:r-,n of If.,",,? crap- The whole house ufcards collapses on them
<br /> when you shat talking cheat chronic, low-level
<br /> ~z~poe~ae~_ b~xamse that', ;+heie the probtctns are-"
<br /> 1-,~r Le_;ainr I l:~~tiaii represartcu an unusual im~cstir,ati~~e oppuitunit~ }1~•;e ~~.~as an i~;,,fated
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<br /> !r~~l;r~cn -~..lfidc !t~~~rr1 a kno~,~n ;ours
<br /> In a i~>31 :c;snrt !hrce n:icnfi,r; at l.a.~rence I.i~crnrore National Lahuratory in C~aliRnnia.
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<br /> puhl(r h.:elt1: i.~1,=-.,f~~t~•~•th~~,tral cncn~~ Irrod~.n;tinn," and that carcinogenie an(i neur~~;~»;ic
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