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<br />discarded, and the rule that was implemented was written by Duane Kanuha and PGV. And
<br />that’s how we got here. And now we’re still here dealing with the same, the same kind of thing.
<br />So, it’s really interesting that the fund can be used to build bus stops and pave streets, but it can’t
<br />be found how to use the money for what it was intended for which was to protect this
<br />community. Director Kanuha is the person that set it up that way, and that was over the
<br />objections of the community at that time, and I was there, and Luana Jones was there, and a lot
<br />of us were there. I mean, that’s ’89, ’99, 2009. It’s gonna be 30 years. Its 27 years that this has
<br />been going on, and I think it is unacceptable that after 27 years, we can’t find a way to fund this
<br />study and the other health studies. We went to the—it took us years. We went to the County
<br />Council with hundreds of people, and we got them to approve a health study with Dr. Kilburn,
<br />and the Mayor vetoed that study, and that was years ago. And, here we are still. We have none
<br />of that. And, how much of that money has been used for other things, but we’ve never been able
<br />to accomplish what the funds were intended for. You know, I, it just seems like it’s either,
<br />there’s some kind of fix is in. I mean, special interests like PGV, they have a lot of political
<br />clout, and they’re able to do things, and our community has been, has been hurt. A lot of people
<br />have been hurt, and this has been going on for a very long time.
<br />First, we were hurt by the geothermal releases of the toxic gases, and now we’re being hurt by
<br />the process that’s preventing anything from being done about it. So, it’s, you know, it’s a double
<br />injury, and I mean, it’s almost like there’s corruption in play here at some level because it’s hard
<br />for me to comprehend how after all of the things that have happened.
<br />And when Iselle happened, there were a lot of people hurt. Over a hundred people. You know,
<br />that—and so you had adjusters for the house’s damage. You had like 20 people out there. From
<br />FEMA—they were, anything if your house, your car, you know, anything happened so we asked
<br />for a nurse to interview the over hundred people that had been injured because we had been
<br />trying to get the health study, and the County said yeah, we wanna do the health study, and so,
<br />you know, our position was that well here you have a whole bunch of people that have just been
<br />injured. Please send a nurse out here, and let’s get, let’s document this. Mayor Kenoi told me
<br />personally no; he wouldn’t do it; that we should do it ourselves because we were good at it.
<br />And, I—I don’t understand that kind of thinking or being treated that way after all this time, and
<br />after everything that’s happened.
<br />There’s been at least 17 Civil Defense declared emergencies of that one power plant. I can’t
<br />think of another power plant in the State of Hawaiʽi that’s even had one declared Civil Defense
<br />emergency, yet we have 17 out there, and we’re talking about are they hurting people? Well, I
<br />think the Adler report found that they are hurting people, and nothing’s being done about it.
<br />And, the Goddard & Goddard report after the blowout in ’91 found that people did get hurt. You
<br />know, I don’t understand. It seems to me that if Director Kanuha wanted to get this study done,
<br />they can, they can get all, anything they want done, you know.
<br />I think it’s intentional. I’m sorry, but that’s what, that’s how I feel about it at this point. Some
<br />of us lived there and been through all this and been part of the process the whole time.
<br />Thank you.
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