2012-10-04 Windward Transcript PD yagong & blas

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PETRICCI: Oh, we get to ask questions, you said? KERN: No, not at this time. It doesn’t really, generally it doesn’t work like that. It’s not so much back and forth. When you come up to do your testimony, there’s an opportunity if a Commissioner has a question that they can go back and forth. Or potentially you can pose a question and then if a Commissioner or the Director is inclined to answer it, they do; and most of the times we do. Then again this is still really going to be moving to defining that process and getting more clarity on that. Jane, is that Hedtke? HEDTKE: Hedtke, H-e-d-t-k-e, yes. KERN: Hedtke, okay, very good. Please raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth today before the Windward Planning Commission? HEDTKE: I do. KERN: Okay, and then all we need is your name, area in which you live, how long you’ve lived there and -. , HEDTKE: Jane Hedtke. I live, I’ve lived in Kapoho, Old RailroadHelekamahina, for 30 years. KERN: Okay. And your three minutes will begin right now. HEDTKE: Okay. When I looked at what health studies have been done, I was a mediation participant. I went through the whole thing with Peter Adler, would not recommend him at all. Also, I have a lot, but I can only go into the short thing. I believe that the rules that you’re using to take money out of this fund don’t exist. I believe the rules that the Planning Director was allowed to promulgate to take money out of this fund possibly didn’t follow Chapter 91 procedures. The other thing I want to say, I have a list of the studies that were done. That’s all, that’s it for our area. Nothing site specific. Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, we had Puna Community Survey in 1983, we’ve had a ’72 environmental assessment unsigned, we had Puna Community Survey by SMS, Dr. Jeannette Sherman testified for the hydrogen sulfide standard. So there has been very little site specific health studies done in this area. Bruce Anderson came out with one. It has a picture of the geothermal venting on the front. He didn’t find any impact. That was in 1982. There are no site specific health studies. I’ve looked at them all. That’s it. We have to have something current, something done correctly. And I think the community has a right to have what doctor they want, as well as you choosing the doctor. And I think that Mr. Billy Kenoi doesn’t understand. He’s been, he’s told oh, well, there have been health studies done. That’s why I’m showing you there hasn’t. So we really need to have it. And people are saying, oh, it’s something else, it’s something else. It isn’t something else. This is 30 years of this. I don’t live close enough to be impacted by it, but I got involved because I live near a scientific observation hole a half a mile away from me, a potential site. Since they have, since they have now declared the whole State a subzone, who’s going to be able to make any plans for their future? This is not a clean technology, folks. I went on a junket to California. It is nothing like here, nothing. Our resource is dirty, hot, corrosive, it’s brand new lava, nothing like anywhere in the world. And I want you to consider that. Look at the record. It is huge. And I have a 26 EXHIBIT C