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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – March 19, 2019 <br /> <br /> Nani Pogline thanked Megan for doing a great job with the minutes. <br /> <br /> <br />FINANCIAL REPORT <br /> <br />BKK: Teresa Nakama moved for approval of the Financial report as submitted. <br />Seconded by Abraham Antonio. Any discussion? <br /> <br />TN: Bronsten – is there any correction to the financial report that you received? <br /> <br />BKK: On 2-6-2019 it states cost of government document descriptions for two <br />expenditures – those have been changed and refunded back to us and so <br />that’s the changes that you will see in the next expenditure report. <br /> <br />BKK: Teresa Nakama amended her motion to accept the financial report with <br />changes. Seconded by Abraham Antonio and carried unanimously by <br />voice vote. <br /> <br />STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC <br /> <br />CH: Good evening. Corey Hardin. Thank you for your service on the commission. <br />Full disclosure – I’m on the Board of the Sierra Club but I’m speaking only for <br />myself tonight and I’m speaking about agenda item 5. B – The Hu Honua – I <br />have a lot of concerns. As you know November 9, last year witnesses saw a <br />river of black water discharging off the cliff at the Hu Honua site. And after <br />several hours a concerned worker turned off that discharge and he said a <br />manager threatened him afterwards. At least 3,500 and maybe as many as <br />32,500 gallons of treated waste water went into the ocean containing acetic <br />metal cleaning solution and residue from descaling of the boiler. At first Hu <br />Honua said the discharge was inadvertent but the Department of Health said <br />a worker for Hu Honua Bio Energy opened a valve on its industrial <br />wastewater treatment tank and allowed the contents of the tank to discharge <br />from their facility into the environment. The Department of Health called the <br />discharge a blatant disrespect of environmental laws and fined Hu Honua <br />$25,000 dollars. So when Mr. Owen speaks – I hope you will ask him these <br />questions. I have heard that the Department of Health is doing a criminal <br />investigation – I wonder if this is correct. Some say that the County would not <br />accept the wastewater at the Hilo sewage plants when Hu Honua tried to take <br />it down there. Is this correct? And if so, what substances were in the waste <br />water that led them to say no. How is the wastewater gonna be disposed of? <br />How many gallons of wastewater were generated when they cleaned the <br />boiler? How many gallons being stored on site? What substances are in that <br />wastewater and I’d like to hear how it’s being stored – what safeguards are <br />being taken and it’s surprising there was no workable disposal plan for the <br />2 <br /> <br /> <br />