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<br />MIYASATO: Kisor, excuse me. Could you all please raise your right hand? Do you swear or
<br />affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Hawai‛i County Planning Commission?
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<br />HALE/TRAVIS L./KISOR: Yes.
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<br />TRAVIS T.: I do.
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<br />MIYASATO: State your name and residence.
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<br />HALE: My name’s Mike Hale. I live at 13-3385 Hookupu in Leilani within the one mile zone.
<br />I don’t understand why we need a health study at this point. I mean, it’s obvious that there’s
<br />health effects, and we’ve got over a hundred people including myself that were affected in this
<br />last time. I mean, I’ve been suspicious of some other things that happened over the years, you
<br />know the grogginess of waking up in the morning or something like that, but this one was so
<br />obvious with hearing the noise, smelling it, feeling the effects, passing out for 12 hours, waking
<br />up groggy, feeling the numbness in the arms, the chest. My girlfriend had the chest thing, still
<br />has a cough. We both still have light cough in the lungs. X-rayed, nothing found. Take
<br />antibiotics, nothing found. Strep throat, no flu. I’ve got my medical reports in. There was no
<br />sickness. Everything points to something that can’t be determined, but all the effects point that it
<br />can be caused by this.
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<br />So, that’s what I felt, and we’ve got all these things going on in the neighborhood. You know, I
<br />have a job. I don’t want to be here and be, you know, talking about it, about geothermal. It
<br />should be an awesome thing, but in this case it’s not. I talked to a few neighbors that aren’t in
<br />the studies that have been done, or in the data that’s been out already. With you know five kids,
<br />their kids all felt effects and got headaches and all this. That hasn’t been taken into account of
<br />these hundred people already. Those neighbors next to them, the old man who went to the
<br />hospital. He’s very private, doesn’t want anybody to know his business—on oxygen ever since
<br />the event. The guy who got sick the night the event, and died a week later. You know, nobody
<br />can say, you know, was it this? Who knows? But, why do I have to worry that maybe it was. I
<br />know my effect was you know. This was obvious that I got sick from this thing. Gonna make
<br />this quick because I got one minute here, but I dropped off some papers there for you, and I, it’s
<br />my options for you know getting away from it. The one is part of their permit, and it says that,
<br />let’s see, geothermal, anybody within the radius is supposed to, notify the residents, 24 hours in
<br />advance. I’ve lived there 14 years. I’ve never been notified. I don’t know anybody who’s ever
<br />been notified. I know that there’s gas been released, but nobody’s ever been notified. This is in
<br />their permit, so they’re in violation of their permit. They’re also supposed to offer us the option
<br />to leave at their expense. There’s no other additional fund. It’s their expense, $100 per resident
<br />or $200 per household, $150 if it impacts your business. Never been offered that. In fact, back
<br />in 2002, I was told there was no such thing when I called the plant.
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<br />The next page on here is I filed a complaint with the zoning on this. The next page on there is
<br />the fact that I tried to go for the relocation, geothermal relocation. The first time I was denied.
<br />The second time I got it. They offered me a hundred thousand less than what I owe on my
<br />house. These are my options to get out of the area. I can’t. The night of the event, I couldn’t get
<br />out due to the trees. That’s it, thank you.
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