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the world, there’s no benefit, they found over the years through constant conflict resolution
<br />which is what we’re going through. And, we will be going through the course again, and each
<br />one person can be held liable no matter what—whether you’re elected or you’re just an
<br />appointed individual. Your assets, your land, your bank account, everything you own, is at stake
<br />because of your decision being made here. But, what they came to was source testing. We need
<br />to test the source of the pollutant coming out of the ground, what they call the resource. When it
<br />comes out of the ground, after it goes through the plant, and then before it is reinjected into the
<br />ground or released to the atmosphere, and only at that point, can you tell what has been gained or
<br />lost through that.
<br />Now, the heat and the temperature are proprietary but the elements that are in the, what they call
<br />resource or the liquid steam whatever, are not proprietary. They are covered under Article 51 of
<br />the United States Code, the Public Right-to-Know Act. Then if anything more than a hundred
<br />pounds of pollutants are released, that the public has the right to know, and, then the emergency
<br />management part of that where all schools, principals of schools, the fire department, the fire
<br />chief, the chief of police, the police department, every public agency within the area impacted by
<br />the, this development, is, has to be part of the determination of what happens.
<br />So, this is what’s going to happen in the end no matter what, but the way that California, in Lake
<br />County and through the California Air Resources Board, and the California Energy Commission,
<br />the California legislature and the Governor of the State of California have come to is that they
<br />formed a committee of concerned citizens, developer, the California Air Resources Board, and
<br />the California Energy Commission, to form rules, regulations, to deal with complaints and,
<br />thereby, resolve the conflicts that have occurred due to the massive amount of geothermal
<br />development which at the peak was 1,500 megawatts of energy.
<br />So, here, they don’t even consider this, which when I was at the plant, they were generating 20
<br />megawatts and five that was parasitic loads, so they were putting 15 megawatts into the grid,
<br />which to them in California, is, seem like nothing.
<br />And, also, I went to Reno, Nevada where I was, we were treated quite badly, and we filmed, and
<br />there was a lawsuit there, but that is where Ormat’s headquarters are, and they made it very clear
<br />with weapons, law enforcement, and people who would not identify themselves that we were not
<br />welcome there. So, we will not go back to Reno to the headquarters of Ormat and file any form
<br />of lawsuits. The lawsuits will be filed here and in Federal Court, District 9 against Ormat
<br />Energy Systems which is PGV, and only facts of law will be allowed. And, what we’re doing is
<br />going about it in reverse which California found out years ago does not work. You’re chasing a
<br />gas in the wind, and that is not admissible as a fact in a court of law. So, what needs to be done
<br />is to be find out what is coming out of the ground, what is being put back into the ground, and
<br />what is being lost in between, and then how is that impacting the people’s health in the area.
<br />If these—if these are, if these are restricted or they are on the EPA’s list of hazardous materials,
<br />then they need to be dealt with on the Federal level, in the end on the State level, too, and on the
<br />County level, but we’re gonna get nowhere doing health studies and running around in circles.
<br />And the amount of, the money itself, that’s a whole nother ballgame. That’s for the lawyers, and
<br />they will be here, and when they smell money, you can look in the, in the telephone directory
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