2019-03-07 Hearing Transcript - Piilani Partners Request for Reconsideration SMA 18-000070

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missing? Okay, Iokepa. Okay, would Geoff Shaw come up, please? Is Geoff still here and wishing to testify? Lahela Camera? Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter before the Commission? TESTIFIERS: Yes [or nodded yes]. CLARKSON: Thank you. Please start down here to my left. Introduce yourself, speak into the microphone, and proceed. CUMMINS: Aloha, my name is Millicent Cummins. I am a rational thinking human being so of course I oppose any kind of project from a profit -based private entity to access a public trust in any way, shape, or form, particularly when that access could compromise the public trust. This is immoral to even suggest that this aquifer be tampered with in any way. If we are to consider not just our own generation, but all future generations, it is immoral, unthinking, and reckless piracy in my humble opinion. Really, all I can is ku kia`i mauna! AUDIENCE MEMBER: Ku kia`i mauna! CUMMINS: Ku kia`i mauna! AUDIENCE MEMBER: Ku kia`i mauna! CUMMINS: Ku kia`i mauna! AUDIENCE MEMBER: Ku kia`i mauna! CUMMINS: And eo. CAMARA, L.: Aloha mai kakou. First of all, mahalo for all your folks work on this Commission. My name is Lahela Camara. I live with my `ohana in the ahupua`a of Kaumana in Hilo, a little below the ahupua`a of Kaohe, which is where the water in this Mauna Kea Aquifer comes from. Thank you for your folks decision last month to defer action on this application, and I'm here to ask today that you stand firm in that decision. There's been undeniable testimony from this community against this project, and even more so today. The fact is we don't know enough about this aquifer, and it has been tapped before, and we don't want to set any precedent that that's okay. We don't know enough about it, and so I don't even want to say that we should do more research to see if we can have an effect on it. This wai, as Mr. Nance stated, is capped by 400,000 -year old land. What does that even mean? We don't even know that. It's older than any of us here, and just the fact that we don't know what that means to us, we probably even haven't even asked that question. What does that water mean? What does that land mean? What does it mean to drill into that? Just because of that, you guys should continue to hold, stand firm on your decision. Hopefully, there are, there's good work to be done with the Commission of Water Resources in their, in their community meetings, in their effort to seek the right kind of protections for these deeps aquifers, and that people of these islands can have a EXHIBIT B 14