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21 cents, because their claim to fame is that this is cheap power. I have a feeling it is heavily subsidized <br />power and won’t really help the people of the Hawaiian Islands. <br /> <br />And so my basic conclusion is I hope that you guys got a chance to read some of the materials from the <br />contested case hearing so that our points are heard; and that’s basically my concern. I feel like through <br />the Commission and the whole law thing we’ve been cut out. Thank you. <br /> <br />KERN: Thank you. Any questions for the testifier? Seeing none, thank you. Scott Watson? <br /> <br />WATSON: Good afternoon, Scott Watson. I reside at 27102 Lali Street in Hilo. I’m the owner of Lot <br />23 in Pepe‘ekeō Point, which is right next door to the power plant. The objective for me here is to stop <br />the plant. You’ve heard testimony from experts about the emissions from this plant as being poisonous, <br />but everybody is sweeping it under the table here. Nobody wants to discuss that anymore. We have <br />this subdivision that was approved by the Planning Commission years ago to create all these residential <br />lots down there. This is to benefit the owner of the property. The Planning Commission created this <br />and now there are all these residents down there and you are about to approve the power plant to <br />pollute the whole area and poison everybody down there. Now your job is to protect the citizens here. <br />None of Hu Honua are citizens here. I am going to live right next door to that thing. And I don’t <br />believe there are more than a few of them that even live in the Pepe‘ekeō area. It is a matter of greed. <br />They are going to come in here and make money off of the power plant. They got stuck there before <br />there was any people anywhere near that place. We’ve created a situation now where there are people; <br />and everybody invested in this with the understanding that there would not be a power plant any more <br />in that area. So to agree with their application here is to let them run with this thing. The Health <br />Department is not going to stop them from polluting anybody. <br /> <br />The green issue, what is so green about burning trees? There is nothing green about it. You're going to <br />create pollution. They are going to dump dirty hot water right in the bay in front of my house where I <br />am going to swim with my kids and my surfer friends. You can’t dump anything in the ocean anywhere <br />from, as a builder I am not allowed to allow let any water runoff, anything go into the ocean. Why <br />would we allow them to start polluting our bay? <br /> <br />The last thing is jobs. They keep talking about jobs. What I do? I build custom homes. My project at <br />Pepe‘ekeō Point will have more jobs in the first three years there than they will ever have there at their <br />power plant. And if I continue to build there and the rest of the residents can go ahead with their plans <br />to develop their property they bought, there are more jobs in this situation than there would ever be <br /> <br />from this power plant.Again, I think this is, here is your chance to save our coastline that’s so <br />beautiful. There’s nothing there now. There is no pollution. We have the chance to make such a <br />beautiful situation down there. It is underway, please stop the power plant from happening. We don’t <br />need the power, HELCO has said that. The jobs, like I said, I’m going to put more jobs on the table <br />than they are going to put on the table with one house. So please take the time to consider this. This is <br />a bad move. There is nothing to benefit any of our residents with this. Thank you very much. <br /> <br />KERN: Thank you. Any questions for the testifier? Seeing none, thank you. Steven Strauss? <br /> <br />8 <br /> EXHIBIT C <br /> <br />