2012-10-04 Windward Transcript PD yagong & blas

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KERN: Come on up. Okay. I’ll get you gentlemen, Mr. Petricci you don’t need to cause you’ve already been sworn in. But these gentlemen, please raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth today before the Windward Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS: Yes. I do. KERN: Okay, very good. So we’ll start with Mr. Blackwell; and before you begin, you have three minutes, give me your name and area in which you live, and then you may begin. BLACKWELL: Aloha. My name is Martin Blackwell. I live in the Kapoho area. My name is Martin Blackwell, owner of Optimum Stress Management and Optimum Resource Management. Mahalo for my opportunity to offer my support to my ohana. “Whoever optimizes the connection between human resources and natural resources, optimizes the health and sustainability of themselves and their ohana.” In order to have optimal resource management, we would have to be an expert at optimizing the awareness stress response. We would have to understand that our stress responses whole job is to manage the environmental resources that surround us 24/7 that may be a threat or an asset at any given moment. How many of our leaders or large resource developers actually have this deep awareness of the stress response and how it affects every decision that a human makes? Our stress response is responsible for having enough discomfort to trigger the awareness of a potential threat in an ever-changing environment. Because of “Change…the Unchanging Truth” that is always present, we have a continuously changing emotional sensory baseline to track it. We are all easily blinded by our quest for total comfort and at risk of over-reacting the discomfort, making potentially terrible long-term decisions, not in the best interest of community, while focusing on short-term or selfish comfort. I came here to offer myself as a resource and to create unity, but I must be willing to risk alienating others because of triggering that very discomfort by being willing to require everyone to look in the mirror at their own motives and stress response related to their position on this issue, or any issue. Those of you who are concerned about geothermal and having your families displaced, are you willing to be displaced on behalf of the common good if it turns out that after a thorough in depth cost-benefit analysis geothermal is ultimately a good risk overall; or will you just act defensively to your stress response to avoid the stress of “Change” and giving up living where you love to live so far? Those of you who are pro-geothermal and get some kind of financial benefit from it for you and/or your families either directly or indirectly as it makes you money or allies or makes you look good like you are supposedly “helping community” by creating jobs, etc., are you willing to abandon it if it is not a good risk and feel the discomfort of those losses and potentially have your career or financial well- being challenged and “Change”? 15 EXHIBIT C