2014-09-04 Hearing Transcript-Mayor - GAF Study

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this study to happen. It’s fair. We’re not an expendable community folks. This, this company and HELCO, they made a decision to keep this plant open, and they disregarded the safety of our community to keep the electricity flowing, and they’ll give you that whole story. He’s here today, and he’ll tell you that stuff. Really folks, we need this. We need this very much. We need this health study but please maybe postpone it and get all the facts of what happened now. What happened now happened now. The people in the room, they haven’t moved to the mainland. They’re here. They’re here, and it’s very important that this get addressed. Geothermal is not clean. It is not green, and it is not renewable. We have better ways here. Let’s put this thing, let’s put this thing to rest. Make ‘em, make them follow the regulations. I mean, we don’t even have monitors. They monitors went out. And then, one last thing, the monitors went out. They were gone during the storm, then after the storm, PGV went ahead and they did their cleanout with no monitors, and people got gassed again, driving by that plant, they got poisoned again, and there was no monitors. Thank you. MIRA: Aloha, my name is Judith Mira, and I live in 13-784 Pohoiki Road, Pāhoa, Hawai‛i 96778. If you would asked me maybe 4-5 years ago on whether PGV gassing people had any effect on their health, I would taken it all with a grain and salt and said well, perhaps not, I really don’t know how people live, but with this last blowout, I was in the middle of it, and it sounded like a jet airline. A jet airplane had landed in my backyard. It was so very loud, and I went to investigate the sound. In opening my door, I got a huge blast of all the toxins that they were putting out. I really didn’t smell much of anything. I didn’t smell the rotten egg smell. There were trees cracking everywhere. I was tired from the expectation of the storm. By 9 o’clock, I was knocked out unconscious. I did not hear any of the storm. I am a mother of three. Moms, we, part of our brain sleeps and part of our brains can hear a pin drop. I didn’t hear huge trees falling in my driveway! Huge ‛ōhi‛a trees. And Albizia trees covering my driveway. When I woke up in the morning to see what was going out, I thought God, I missed all this? I couldn’t believe it. And, I woke up, and I was so tipsy. I do not drink. I do not do drugs. I barely do any coffee because it gives me a headache, but I feel like I, I’ve been drugged. I still feel somewhat drugged. Like there’s a part of my brain that is not quite connecting, that I have to write myself notes. And I feel uneasy and just a little bit, like I’m disconnected. I also couldn’t sleep for five days because I had this dry cough all night long. I was, I had two guests in my house who came to stay with me for the storm. These guests also had headaches. None of us heard the storm. We couldn’t believe that we did not hear all of those trees fall down, and part of my house was inundated when the strongest of the storm came around, and I didn’t feel that. My cat walks wobbly after the storm, like she, like her hips are a little dislocated. Yeah, so from the headaches, from the cough, the raspy throat, and they poisoned us four times after the blowout with smaller blowouts. Just a minute--if another country was to come and poison us in the way that they did, we would be at war right now with them. We cannot let these people get away with this. Thank you so very much for your time. Aloha. MIYASATO: Go ahead. KUYKENDALL: Aloha, my name is Paul Kuykendall. I live at 13-5628 Malama Ki Road in Pāhoa. I’d like to begin by thanking the members of this Planning Commission for considering the health study funding. As important as a timely study is, I recommend that it be put on hold while an investigation of the health impacts of the recent PGV leaks during Hurricane Iselle be 9 EXHIBIT F