2016-11-03 Hearing Transcript - Ohana Ho'opakele GAF Claim

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going to rob all their mac nut farm. They won't buy their house out. They'll buy the house out, but not their 12 -acre mac nut farm, and the business associated with it. So, she stands to lose a whole lot. So, she's staying there at her place. She's worried about her husband. Okay, so she has a 15 -minute oxygen mask for herself and one for the baby that goes all the way around the baby. Well, now, the baby's two. She's gonna put that mask—she can teach her to put it on her face. HENKEL: Would you wrap it up, please, Melinda? FISHER: Okay. Well, she wants to put it on her face. Who should teach a child that? Okay, who should have to teach their 2 -year old to do that? And, then my grandbaby, I'm at Safeway, and she wants to go out at Burger King and see the smoke coming out of the top. She thinks poison gas turns into a giant mushroom cloud right up above every building. And, my daughter, she didn't want me telling anyone she's pregnant, but she's on bedrest now, and she can't be here. She's trying to stop having a miscarriage. She gets so upset by all of this stuff, and I would love to email you all my testimony. Thank you. HENKEL: Thank you. Cory, you're next, and you've got—you're signed up for both so you've got six minutes. HARDEN: Yeah, so Cory Harden with Sierra Club, Moku Loa Group. I'm just gonna speak on No. 6. First, I want to thank all you folks for your service on the Commission, and I just hope this study can get going. You all know it's been a really long time, and I just want to say a few things about Edelstein. I was looking at his resume to make sure that what he does is not just environmental stuff but recognized by other places. So, for example, he was project director for a New Jersey board of public utilities grant. He was a member of a team assembled by University of Mississippi to develop guidelines for post - Katrina social science research. He has given presentations at Caldwell University; at the American Association of Colleges and Universities; the New York City Bar Association, one of their conferences; the Eastern Psychological Association; the American Water Works Association. He led a conference organized by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, and he has given expert testimony in toxic tort litigation and administrative hearings. So, he's recognized not just by the environmental community but, you know, community as a whole. Thank you. ALBERTINL Aloha, I'm Jim Albertini. I'm the secretary of Ohana Ho`opakele, and also the president of Malu `Rina. And, just for a little bit of background, Malu `Rina was the base for the Big Island Rainforest Group that worked closely with the Pele Defense Fund back in the eighties, so we've been involved in this geothermal for a long time, and my intent today was simply to try and come to say thank you for moving this study forward. And, now I agree with Chairman Henkel that it seems like this "Ground Hog Day" movie or something that we're in a never- ending hole on this for some reason, and I hope that Planning Director Kanuha can clarify. My understanding is that Michael Edelstein is on the approved professional services list, and now EXHIBIT C 11