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WOODWARD: Okay, thank you. Any questions? I assume that, and y <br />evidently several people. All of these are going to continue the <br />FAÒAGAU: Correct. Yes, thatÓs true. <br />WOODWARD: Okay, all right. Very good. Okay, Mr. Lindsey, if youÓll give us your name <br />and address and then you may begin. <br />LINDSEY: My name is Pete Lindsey. My address is 749 Mililani Street. ThatÓs my office. My <br />home address is Kuhio Village, Hawaiian Kuhio Village in Waimea. <br />Field Representative for the Hawaii Construction LaborersÓ Union <br />member of the union for 30 years. On behalf of our 500 Big Isla <br />testifying in strong support of the Hu Honua Bioenergy LLCÓs Special Management Area Permit <br />211. <br />With this project it will create jobs, both permanent jobs and c <br />the Big Island unemployment rate is extremely high, jobs and eco <br /> Right now we have on our bench about 145 laborers, on the bench. They are right now being, <br />pretty soon will be finished with their unemployment. So they n <br />The proposed plant will create sustainable green energy and biom <br />agriculture. This 21 megwatt power plant will help to reduce Big <br />expensive imported foreign oil. Our members and our community s <br />costs. With oil costs projected to rise to the price that we hav <br />will help us to stabilize the electric prices for Big Island res <br />We humbly ask that the Windward Commission approve this Ho Honua <br />WOODWARD: Okay, thank you very much. Any questions? All right <br />seated. And weÓll get the next four people up here: Gwendolyn De <br />Bryan, and Ed Pabst. <br />PABST: In the interest of time, IÓll decline speaking on the mat <br />WOODWARD: Oh, okay, Mr. Pabst is going to decline. So weÓll get <br />then. <br />GONZALEZ: Mr. Chairman? <br />WOODWARD: Yes. <br />GONZALEZ: In the interest IÓd like to defer and IÓll continue to <br />13 <br />EXHIBIT B <br /> <br />