2012-10-04 Windward Transcript PD yagong & blas

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If we do not say yes, we are not part of the solution; we are part of the problem. We are behaving without awareness and at risk of acting like self-servicing comfort addicts merely acting as the blind leading the blind, like a moth into the light. Any leaders who do not support intensive and potentially time consuming environmental studies and permitting processes are acting as unaware leaders that are not following your oath to lead and protect the community. When dealing with a form of energy that is so potentially powerful by its very nature of involving fragile geological processes and highly explosive gases and chemical runoff, any investor or protector should be willing to go to any expense to protect reckless unaware devastation to the earth and the ohana. Until we have a deep awareness of our own awareness stress response and can easily describe all the benefits and risks involved in comfort and discomfort, we are an unaware leader or developer that needs to immediately -. KERN: Mr. Blackwell, sorry, -. BLACKWELL: Educate themselves -. KERN: That three, three minutes is up. I have to cut you off. Everybody is just exactly the same. I do apologize. BLACKWELL: Deep mahalo and gratitude. “United we Stand…Divided we Fall.” KERN: Thank you. Any questions for the testifier? GONZALES: Question. KERN: Yes, Commissioner Gonzales. GONZALES: Mr. Blackwell, how long have you lived in Puna? BLACKWELL: I’ve been there seven years. GONZALES: Thank you. KERN: Any other questions? Seeing none, thank you. Mr. Petricci, you’ve got three minutes. Just fyi, I’m going to hold this up when you’ve got a minute left, and then -. PETRICCI: Okay, I don’t think it’s going to take three minutes, but I do appreciate it. KERN: And anybody else who is going to testify have three minutes, I will cut you off, no offense. So -. PETRICCI: Okay. So two things, in the document I -. 16 EXHIBIT C