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- - - , - PI PC, Murashige, Laura C IV tt tt m 'I com] From. ar ea s [c�yea @g ai . Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 5:22 PM To: counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us t Subject: A voice asking to be heard Dear Sirs Madams It is with firm conviction that I voice support to any council person who stands to protect a district of the big Island of Hawaii upper and lower Puna. I and indeed the many residents that I know in neighborhoods from Kaimu to Kapoha are so concerned about any possibility that the PDLC be granted any access to public lands , especially to energy consortiums that could prove to have extremely dangerous environmental and public safety issues as well as industrializing a landscape that truly represents the old Hawaii heartland That is treasured by so many visitors. In this regard I point to that this district is a rapidly growing area with a very specialty niche of people who choose to live apart from the hustle and bustle of commercial areas. Artists, writers and many successful retired business people have come here and carved out homes and homesteads in order to live a quality of life that Puna richly offers. We have a growing township, Pahoa. Being redesigned , many charter schools with cultural and or arts and sciences curriculums , wellness centers. Retreats and Natural Health practitioners, all opening businesses and offering services to this community. What is patented lay obvious is that for both residents and many many visitors and tourists that come and spend dollars within the growing Local Economy network of Farmers markets and other local several nights a week market venues that we are thriving here in a way of life that surely represents all the growth economies that are the present and future growth economies. What would happen if big Industry comes here ??? Drills a disastrous well ( even one) . There are wild wells that have pumped years worth of mud out onto the landscape. Not to mention the visual air water quality etc etc that would disrupt the quiet that thousands of people come here again and again to enjoy. I think if PDLC hurts this now just blossoming. Economy of Natural farming agricultural homestead fishing coast serenity timelessness of our district ( Even slightly) that it will prove to be a downturn economically to the many new business peoples and residents of this area and the quality of life that landowners have invested in, to leave the industrial world will have been for naught. The decisions before our legislators should only be to protect and help to thrive those of us that want a Pono way of life for ourselves the world and the state who's motto points the way toward perpetuity. Industry that uses state land for questionably safe energy production for power users far away at a cost of huge sums to transport is an old energy equation that doesn't work for the local region used to generate the resource. That area usually bears the degradation not the benefit. A solar hot water heater could be put on nearly every roof in the county for the cost of the cable!! Save 390 of the states energy demands.... Solar Farms with agricultural byproducts. These are the small scale innovations or business industries that preserve our way of life and are in step with a new energy future. Corporations from other nations ocean cabling electricity to Oahu is ludicrous! The cost of infra structure alone should send all such plans straight to the waste can .... Unless our public officials are in on the money to be made. Hey let's drill a geothermal well and inject chemicals in it in their back yards.... See kinda distasteful, yea? Count mine as a voice that says put an injunction against the operation of any such land use lease until a proper and exhaustive evaluation and public approval by referendum or that Act 55 gets repealed. You think exhaustive is to much trouble? Being a land or homeowner near within a potentially disastrous evacuation zone that slips up eve once. Will be a cleanup of far more exhaustive proportions. �-ZWL Comm. No. -�- lief. Date bLr L Ref. Date LI'18