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<br />complete lack of a monitoring system. What is also in the steam that’s released? We have no
<br />data on exposure so it’s very difficult to do a good health study and find a relationship between
<br />what people are experiencing and what they’ve actually been exposed to. So, I don’t know if
<br />you got a copy of this. It’s a paper that was published back in 2008 by some consultants for
<br />PGV. It’s kind of an interesting paper. There’s some information in here that, it’s relevant. I
<br />can’t actually get any data from it specifically, but this paper is looking at metals that they got
<br />out of scale from the pipes. So this is metals in the brine and the steam, and they contain copper,
<br />zinc, lead, arsenic, selenium, cadmium, molybdenum, antimony, tellurium, and thallium.
<br />There’s actually more, I mean, there’s a lot of stuff in that brine, and there’s not a way that
<br />they’re actually taking it out so that the community are not exposed to it, and there’s no data to
<br />show what people are being exposed to. So, originally, I have been supportive of the community
<br />funding a health study out of the royalty fund, but after this latest release, I think it’s premature
<br />until we have an independent inquiry. We really do need to take a look at what happened in this
<br />latest event, and rushing into, and I know it’s not a rush because it’s been 30 years, but the health
<br />study as it stands is gonna need some work to really include all of the things that we’ve been
<br />exposed to, so thank you for your time.
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<br />MIYASATO: Go ahead.
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<br />BALDWIN: My name is Haley Baldwin. My address is 13-699 Leilani Avenue. I’m .7 miles
<br />from the geothermal plant on the GPS. What happened was basically our mini Fukushima, and
<br />we can’t allow that to happen to us. We have to take responsibility for people’s health. It’s a
<br />double standard to say that we cannot prevent lava flow because we’re cultural sensitivity, but
<br />yet we can extract it and poison people and gas people? That’s a double standard. It’s punching
<br />holes in Pele. In my theory, it is attracting the lava. If we don’t do something about it, then Pele
<br />will. People are sick. I moved here in February from the North Shore of Hawai‛i. I never knew
<br />how blessed I was to breathe clean air. I bought an acre thinking that I could have my first child.
<br />I had a spontaneous abortion, and it was attributed to the geothermal plant. This study although
<br />it focuses on the nervous system, the respiratory system, and then anxiety disorder, it opens the
<br />door to look at all the affects. During Hurricane Iselle, I was in my home. The plant blew up.
<br />There was nothing controlled about it. It had more than one explosion. I faced towards it and
<br />tucked and covered and it made this awful sound. (Imitated sound.) I feared for my life. It
<br />didn’t stop. I kept going, and then immediately the rotten egg smell comes, and at that point, I
<br />began to have all the neurological effects—a headache, poor concentration, even my personality
<br />has been affected. I’m more irritable. I have attention span, my verbal recall has been affected.
<br />I’ve only lived there since February—February, March, April, May, June, July, August,
<br />September. I’m already, every day, headaches. I’m a completely healthy person. I was a
<br />summer hire for the County of Hawai‛i, and I did a respiratory, a respirator test to prove that I
<br />had the lung capacity to wear a respirator, and my lung function has already been decreased. I
<br />cannot dive as much as I used to, and it’s all, it, this, I have a degree in psychology from the
<br />University of Hawai‛i. This can be conducted unbiased, unskewed, with correct information. It
<br />can be done. Even a university student could do it. We need to make it, and as I summarize, we
<br />need the professionals to do it, but we need it to be unbiased. When they teach you in science,
<br />you don’t skew the data. Their monitors are not accurate. When I go on-line when I smell a
<br />smell, that’s they the website is unavailable, okay? So, I can’t even monitor when I should leave.
<br />How I should leave. So, it doesn’t take a long—to have this to have health effects. Not, and the
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