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HEAUKULANI: --so, you undertake a study similar to what’s proposed before us? <br /> <br />PETRICCI: Yes. <br /> <br />HEAUKULANI: Thank you. <br /> <br />PETRICCI: Thank you. <br /> <br />MIYASATO: Any further questions, Commissioners? Thank you. Ronald Fujiyoshi, if you <br />have anything further, you have three minutes. If not, Tom Luebben. <br /> <br />TRAVIS: I’m Tom Travis again, live at 14-256 Papaya Farms Road. <br /> <br />MIYASATO: Mr. Travis, you’re still under oath, yeah? <br /> <br />TRAVIS: Yes sir. I’ve, I’ve had an opportunity to say my say, but I want to clarify one thing <br />that Mr. Petricci said. That group didn’t vote against doing the Edelstein study. The vote, the <br />group voted against doing the work necessary to get the Edelstein study included as part of the <br />recommendation of the group, and that was a decision made by the group, not based on the <br />virtues and merits of the Edelstein study—it rather based on the desire to finish work because <br />we’ve been at it for a long time. Thank you. <br /> <br />MIYASATO: Mr. Luebben, could you please raise your right hand? Do you swear or affirm to <br />tell the truth on this matter now before the Hawai‛i County Planning Commission? <br /> <br />LUEBBEN: I do. <br /> <br />MIYASATO: Please state your name and residence. <br /> <br />LUEBBEN: My name is Thomas E. Luebben, and I’m a resident of New Mexico, but a property <br />owner in Puna. <br /> <br />MIYASATO: Go ahead, you have three minutes. <br /> <br />LUEBBEN: Thank you. I really, aloha to the Planning Commission, and I appreciate the <br />opportunity to make a statement today in support of the proposed study. I’m an attorney in <br />private practice, and I’m appearing on behalf of myself to offer information to the committee in <br />support of the study. <br /> <br />I did represent the Pele Defense Fund in the 1980’s and the early 1990’s in geothermal related <br />litigation, including contesting the original geothermal resources permit which is the background <br />for this effort to get this study funded. <br /> <br />I participated in the mediation that resulted in what was then Condition 51, and which created the <br />Geothermal Asset Fund, which is now, the condition is now Condition 49. I appealed the <br />12 <br />EXHIBIT D <br /> <br /> <br />