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From: Elaine Makaio
Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2025 6:08 PM
To: Council Testimony
Subject: Opposition to any and all exploring or any and all investigation to any Geothermal on
all of our Hawaiian Islands
Aloha a Chair MICHELLE M. GALIMBA,
REBECCA VILLEGAS
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Vice Chair, JAMES E. HUSTACE,
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HOLEKA GORO INABA,
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JENN KAGIWADA,
MATT KANEALI`I-KLEINFELDER,
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ASHLEY L. KIERKIEWICZ,
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HEATHER L. KIMBALL, and
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I oppose to any and all REQUESTS to any PRESENTATION BY MR. ZURI K. AKI, WAIKA
CONSULTING AND INNOVATIONS DEVELOPMENT GROUP,
REGARDING GEOTHERMAL ENERGY DEVELOPMENT for the following reasons:
I am a Lineal Descendant to separate properties where my Kupuna iwi resting place takes place. I am
Traditional Cultural Practitioner to protecting, preserving our `aina they rest upon, and malama said
places that these proposals are being requested for such Development.
Perpetuation of malama iwi practices strengthens the ability of our people, communities, and our way of
identifications of who we are and to be erasing this very viable information is an act of Treason upon the
Statehood Act of 1959 to fulfill their primary mission: §4. As a compact with the United States relating to
the management and disposition of the Hawaiian
home lands, the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended, shall be adopted as a provision
of
the Constitution of said State, as provided in section 7, subsection (b) of this Act, subject to amendment
or repeal only with the consent of the United States, and in no other manner: Provided, That (1) sections
202, 213, 219, 220, 222, 224, and 225 and other provisions relating to administration, and paragraph (2)
of section 204, sections 206 and 212, and other provisions relating to the powers and duties of officers
other than those charged with the administration of said Act, may be amended in the constitution, or in
the
manner required for State legislation, but the Hawaiian home -loan fund, the Hawaiian home -operating
fund, and the Hawaiian home -development fund shall not be reduced or impaired by any such
amendment, whether made in the constitution or in the manner required for State legislation,
encumbrances authorized to be placed on Hawaiian home lands by officers other than those charged
with
the administration of said Act, shall not be increased, except with the consent of the United States; (2)
that
any amendment to increase the benefits to lessees of Hawaiian home lands may be made in the
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constitution, or in the manner required for State legislation, but the qualifications of lessees shall not be
changed except with the consent of the United States; and (3) that all proceeds and income from the
"available lands", as defined by said Act, shall be used only in carrying out the provisions of said Act and
part of this very Act is to make sure our people of Kanaka Maoli Descendants, and of bloodline is to
protect and malama our living Kanaka Maoli \/'Oiwi and our iwi kupuna. By centering cultural knowledge
and expertise, and removing the requirement that developer and large landowner interests should not be
in any of your, council members pockets. As County and City servants who are responsible to ensuring
that our best interest as Kanaka Maoli, Kanaka'Oiwi and it's Communities is who you are supposed to
protect from Harmful and Toxic Waste that these developers agenda is about, and that we all have
endured since 1993s PUNA VENTURE GEOTHERMAL PLANT that have killed many who lives in the 10
mile radius of this plant for far to long. Also, Human Rights under the International Laws Vienna
Declaration 1993,
Where All of these rights, as affirmed by all States in the landmark Vienna Declaration of 1993, "are
universal, indivisible and interdependent and interrelated", to be treated "globally in a fair and equal
manner, on the same footing", and it's by will and rule of law under Our Heavenly Ke Akua (Heavenly
Father God) to represent Native Hawaiian cultural perspectives.
How many Geothermal Plants will it take to any of you Human -beings to see this is not Eco-Friendly, or
even tolerable for an island in the middle of the huge Pacific Ocean to protect from such drastic damage
that can never be mended in the future?! Under our rightful Country's Kanawai (Laws) of Kamehameha III
Constitutional Laws of 1852, descendants have a voice in the protection and preservation of burial sites,
any and all of Ko Hawaii Pae'Aina also known as the Hawaiian Islands Chain.
Implementing the state's trust duties The State of Hawaii has a constitutional mandate to protect Native
Hawaiian traditional and cultural practices, including those related to malama iwi, malama and
perpetually care for all of the `aina surrounded in The Ko Hawai'i Pae'Aina, ALL of it's ocean, all of its
rivers waterways, and all its air space our Ko Hawai'i Pae'Aina surroundings. You, as Hilo County
Council as Public Servants are bonded and to all it's importantance and means for this very island state
to effectuate its trust duties by ensuring that Native Hawaiians cultural perspectives are properly
reflected in council decisions, and by empowering Native Hawaiian decision -making authority over all of
Ko Hawai'i Pae'Aina.
Mahalo for the opportunity to testify in OPPOSING of this important measure.
Me ke aloha pumehana,
Elaine Poipe Keali`iwahamana SanJose
Residence:38-250 Mauna Kea Access Road
Mailing: P.O. Box 6329
Hawaii o Keawe,
Ko Hawai'i Pae'Aina 96720
808-747-1048
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