2018-04-05 Hearing Transcript - Hu Honua Bioenergy SMA 221 (Dec Ruling)

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CLARKSON: If there are no further questions from Commissioners, we thank you for your presentation, and we'll start with public testimony at this time. So far, we have 17 people who have signed up to testify on this matter. If18as with the previous agenda item we are going to take testimony, we'll ask six people at a time to come up. Please let me know if you have not been sworn in today, and if so, I will swear you in. And, we'll start with the first six, which will be Claudia Rohr, Stephen Mahoney, Joan Ellis, Max Newberg, Koohan Paik, and Lisa Andrew. PAIK (from audience): Lisa is not here. CLARKSON: Then we will go with, Colleen Lawrence? PAIK: Colleen is not here. CLARKSON: Christopher Dean? AUDIENCE MEMBER: Not here. CLARKSON: Rosemary Gonzalez? AUDIENCE MEMBER: Did Max leave? AUDIENCE MEMBER: Yeah [inaudible]. CLARKSON: And, Keha Guss is not here. Steve Johnson? Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm that you will tell the truth on this matter before the Commission today? TESTIFIERS: I do. CLARKSON: Thank you. We'll start with this gentleman, and proceed down the line. MAHONEY: Thank you. My name is Stephen Mahoney. I live right on Sugar Mill Road, I'm halfway between the highway and the power plant about exactly one-half mile above the power plant. And, I just want to testify that you can hear the noise right now. So, I don't know, I know it's construction time, I don't know if they are supposed be under 55 or not, but all day 6:30 in the morning jake brakes going down, the construction trucks, they are not the field trucks, I understand, but they rattle the windows. I can speak on behalf of my neighbor. They've got a nine-month old baby; that wakes up the baby at 6:30 in the morning. My brother-in-law is the property owner, the landlord, he has his in-laws living with them. They are both 94. They hear it. They hear the noise. It's more than just the jake brakes, though. This morning you could hear a truck backing up out there, the reverse signal, all the traffic, I can hear every one of those reverse signals on the trucks on the construction site a half -mile away coming up. I can hear the trucks unloading, the clanging of the different machines, the jackhammers. And, you know, for the first two years I lived there, it was peace and tranquility, and right now I look forward to the sun going down and Sundays because you can just hear the noise all the time. EXHIBIT D 9