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we’ve got some buy-in from both people who are opposed to geothermal, people who are supportive of
<br />geothermal, people who think that there are health impacts, people who don’t think that there are
<br />health impacts, so that we can come to some type of agreement on what a study should look like. And
<br />that, that’s what we should -. Because otherwise we’re just throwing money away if we come up with
<br />hiring somebody and people aren’t going to agree on the methodology or people aren’t going to be
<br />supportive. Do I expect 100 percent support for anything or 100 percent agreement on something that
<br />comes out? No. What I’d like to have is as broad a consensus on what we do. And obviously I don’t
<br />ultimately make the decision. I’m just going end up making a recommendation, which is how
<br />normally everything that is on the agenda comes up before the Commission. I make a
<br />recommendation. Sometimes they listen to my recommendation, sometimes they don’t; and that’s
<br />because you get an independent group of people and they do their homework. And I know from my
<br />past experience with the Commission that everything that’s submitted to them, they read and they pay
<br />attention to it. So I know that, you know, the stuff that Mr. Petricci has given them, that they will go
<br />and take a look at that, and they will be well informed before they have to make a decision. I think
<br />right now we’re basically talking about process, and how do you set up a study, and how do you, you
<br />know, what do you do and what does it have to include. And today I don’t have that answer. I’m
<br />hoping that what we get from Dr. Adler is a recommendation that does have community buy-in and
<br />that would come up with a proposal that both the Commission as well as the community could approve
<br />of.
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<br />KERN: Thank you, Madam Director. Any questions for Mr. Travis, Fellow Commissioners? Thank
<br />you. Ms. Wiesenbauer, name, area in which you live, how long you’ve lived there, you may begin.
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<br />WIESENBAUER: Okay. Good morning, Commission. My name is Petra Wiesenbauer. I live in
<br />Leilani Estates, and I have lived there for the last 14 years. I’m a member of the PUNA Neighborhood
<br />Group, and that group was formed in the wake of the legislation of Bill 256. We’re a group that
<br />actually oppose the bill. And our main content or discontent with the bill was the creation of the one-
<br />mile buffer zone before any scientific study was done that could prove that this step was necessary.
<br />And so as a group our intention is to help provide factual information, engage the people in discussion
<br />and constructively move forward. The forward movement is what we really focus on. There is for us
<br />no sense in staying stuck in the past and what had happened 20 some years ago. There is for us very
<br />much misinformation and also myths out there, and people are kind of, from our point of view, holding
<br />on to some of these things. And we feel that this is not helping any of us. We are, even though, people
<br />have said that we’re not supporting, you know, the health of our community, but we are very much in
<br />support of the health studies, and see it as a way to once and for all put things to rest. If there are
<br />problems in this area where we live, we’re the first ones who would like to know about it, and then see
<br />what can be done to move forward. The blame game for us does not help, you know, anybody. Only
<br />if we work together we can change for the better. People in our group are in support of the geothermal
<br />development as a means of generating less expensive and renewable energy. Of course, you know,
<br />health and safety is the biggest priority, and this must be, you know, a big portion of planning
<br />development in the future. But we feel that with State regulation and close collaboration between State
<br />and County agencies, community groups and efforts, and the industry, this is completely doable.
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<br />We as a group would like to share with you our concerns about the request that has been made to Mr.
<br />Yagong in his capacity as the County Council Chair by the Puna Pono Alliance requesting funds to pay
<br />for a health study conducted by Dr. Kilburn.
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