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with this plan. No one has any concerns for the neighbors here t stuff and are right next door to these people. So I donÓt know h the community that are behind this, but I doubt any of them live within 300 feet of the smoke stack. So noise is a biggie. Health, again, I just -. ItÓs an old site, visited it, lot of trouble down there in my eyes. Like I said I come in and out of there every day. So IÓm not looking forward Commission. So I hope youÓll see it in favor of the community. WOODWARD: Thank you. Okay, Don Bryan. BRYAN: IÓm Don Bryan. My address is Post Office 8, Ookala. I am Tradewinds Forest Products. And we are in the process of constructing a high value wood products mill at Ookala and also are fully permitted to build a plant at Ookala. So weÓve been down this path. IÓd like to say t tough to get everybody in this island to agree on any single poi that we can all come to consensus on in Hawaii Island is that we renewable energy and we need jobs. As for energy, weÓve got a gr the wind, the hydro and the solar; but all of these share a comm to blow, the rivers have to run, or the sun has to shine before next level for renewable energy for Hawaii Island what we have t energy of the kind that a biomass plant can produce. We cannot plant that can go off at any moment. It must be balanced. And way we have to do it on this island. On jobs, HawaiiÓs best opportunity to create jobs in my opinion Now basic about the forest products industry, if you look at a t not every bit of every tree can go into a high value product. I great because they create more jobs. But there are bits of ever There are two things that can happen to those. WeÓre not going t Hawaii Island. Two things can happen. They can either become pul probably some other Asian country, or they can become renewable Those really are the two possible outcomes. With renewable ener here, and the jobs stays here. I think that is a vastly preferab of the trees that donÓt make high value products and sending the care for that. I donÓt think thatÓs good for the island and itÓs IÓd like to comment on a couple of things that have been said pr said about air. And having watched that plant when it was coal b understand why people are concerned about the air. That was not coming up is a vastly different operation. This is wood, not co those two fuels. The second thing is the era of the technology. have permitted at Ookala. Since the Clean Air Act was passed in air have changed tremendously. Now IÓm not going to cover all o remind you that there is a very, very thorough venue for answeri 16 EXHIBIT B