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U I:IUUCrt ° ° ~lUt/C:,t ~ ~ ~ Preserving the <br /> P.O. Box 263, Pahoa, Hawaii 96778 good in Puna <br /> Adrian Barber President <br /> Phone & fax: (808) 965-6050 <br /> Pahoa Office: (808) 965-0557 <br /> Tuesday, January 21, 1997 <br /> Chairperson Chung, Members of the Committee on Finance. <br /> Aloha. ~~~RECEIVED <br /> llme__------------ B <br /> y'-- <br /> ~ ,/a, - <br /> Data._.-_-------- a-- . <br /> Good morning. Coumy councu f c <br /> My name is Adrian Barber. I reside in Leilani Estates and work in <br /> Lani Puna Gardens close to Puna Geothermal Venture. I have the <br /> honor to serve the community effected by toxic Hydrogen Sulphide <br /> emmisions in Puna as President of Pune Malama Pono, a non-profit <br /> <br /> autonomous group. We are proponents of the healthy environment <br /> guaranteed citizens of Hawaii by the Constitution of Hawaii. We <br /> oppose being poisoned in our homes by the recent intrusion into <br /> our residential neighborhoods by industrial plants that can not or <br /> will not contain the toxic by products of their opperation. <br /> With regard to Communication 59: (Bill 14) I urge you to vote <br /> "No". <br /> This is a simple issue. If geothermal developement posses no <br /> threat to the health and safety of the neighboring communites then <br /> there is no need for a Geothermal Royalty Fund to buy out people <br /> who are not effected by a plant that posses no threat and the <br /> County does not need to get into the realty business with money <br /> urgently needed for other pressing needs in the community. If <br /> there is a threat to the community and lives and health are at <br /> risk, as a recent study by the University of Texas Toxicology <br /> Department seems to strongly indicate, then the proper course of <br /> <br /> action would be to enforce the County permits under which such <br /> industrial plants opperate. In this case that it is GRP-1 and I <br /> quote Condition One. The proposed geothermal developement <br /> <br /> activities would not have unreasonable adverse health, <br /> environmental, or socio-economic effects on the residents or <br /> surrounding property."I hope you take my point. w <br /> We shall be, you can be sure, watching very closely the <br /> development of this administrations attempt to, in our opion, pull <br /> the wool over the voters eyes with politicaly motivated actions in <br /> gross disregard for the spirit, and we believe, the letter of th <br /> Corns. Aiw • <br /> A HawaiYnon-profit corporation certified pursuant fo lRS Code § 501(c)(3J 111e i7o. FN O O PF- <br /> Presented C. <br /> xef. 7b:.~„~99T - <br /> <br />