2014-01-09 Windward Exh B - Items 5 & 6

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be selected out when you are doing respiratory analyses. You’ll see more of that later down the line and probably in greater details, and you will be happy with it. GREEN: We plan to get it from clinicians and from other reliable sources as, you know, there is a lot of data here, and we plan to just bind them as reliable sources and we will compare them, too. I know that the Travises did a great deal of work that basically replicates what some of the physicians have done, and we would like to compare that. I think that that would be interesting. So a variety of sources and, of course, reliability will be considered. But you will only be paying for the mitigation, because once we make a scientific determination of the proximal cause of their symptoms, then you can as judges decide whether you are going to pay for that part of the study or not, and their treatment, for example. But, you know, the problem is people can’t afford their treatment and their insurance can pay for only some things some times. So we really need your help to get started. I think it costs $25 per subject, to recruit subjects into a study, just to make sure that they are going to go through with it. And so that’s something that -. The Travises have already done some work in this. We have a lot of talent on this island, and I think we can do it ourselves. It will be nice if there were a way to hire people here to do this kind of work. But I really, I look for a job here doing this, and it’s, it’s not there. We are creating this job right now as you speak. Thank you. GONZALES: Thank you. And thank you, René. Do we have a Cory, Cory Harden? Cory, our last testifier. Would you raise your right hand, please. Do you swear to tell the truth before the Windward Planning Commission today? Thank you. Please use your microphone. HARDEN: Good morning. And thank you for your service on the Planning Commission. I don’t have a lot of expertise like all these other wonderful folks, but I’ve been kind of following the issue and going to as many meetings as possible. I really appreciate the Mayor taking the lead on these projects. I support doing the items under No. 6 as soon as possible. While carefully weighing the concerns that have been raised about the claims adjuster and the meta-analysis, I think it’s really too bad that problems like that old HGP-A well that is kind of falling on you because other agencies are not dealing with it, like the state Department of Health, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Planning and Economic Development, they are not really dealing with it, University of Hawai‘i, HELCO, and Natural Energy Laboratories; so it’s kind of falling, it’s rather a heavy burden for you folks. So thank you for taking it on. And I think we really need to know about health impacts with the geothermal zone restrictions eliminated and so much pushing for the geothermal expansion to maybe send power by cable to O‘ahu. It seems like anyone anywhere could wake up to geothermal drilling next door. And there is no flacking measure, which people may think would help to slow things down; but a lot of times people have a way of going to the State or to the Feds to override what the County has done. So I think the sooner the health studies get done the better. Thank you. GONZALES: Thank you. That concludes our public testimony. KANUHA: Mr. Chairman? GONZALES: Yes, sir. Mr. Kanuha. KANUHA: Seeing that we’ve had testimony from the public related to the items on the agenda, I was wondering if there is a representative from the Mayor’s office, who would like to, you know, kind of wrap up on what the comments were. 19 EXHIBIT B