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From: Teresa San Miguel [mom.sanmiguel @gmail.com] 2813
OCT
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 9:13 AM PH 3: 43
To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us
Subject: Tracking / bill 129
Dear council members
You must realize I am writing to oppose the legalization of fracking in Hawaii. In my recent visit to
the " mainland", the disregard for the natural environment became clearly more evident in areas where
community leadership is less educated, and therefore less prosperous, more concerned with short term
economic benefits. It's ugly.
In other, more prosperous, and generally more educated and informed areas, community leadership was
more closely involved with both educating and representing their constituents,
The people I met in those areas are appalled that we would even consider allowing fracking, or that the
geothermal experiment is so easily moved through permitting guidelines, and that those of us fortunate
enough to live in this beautiful place are so ignorant as to continue destroying it with short-view
development.
We are being encouraged to see ourselves and our island home as a model to break away from
conventional and unsustainable infrastructure practices, and work towards creative solutions instead. I
believe we have enough creative intelligence here to drive that vision, even though it might not be
embodied in this council. Please, open your minds and hearts to the truth of that and step around the
current " business as usual" paradigm to find something better.
Please pass bill 129.
Sincerely,
Teresa San Miguel
Kea'au
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