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RES. 257-15
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Dr. Joseph Kassel, N.D., L.Ac. 2015 SEP -2 AN 10: 13
P.O.B. 400
Holualoa, Hawaii 96725
(808) 329-6442
> ADD TO APPENDIX F "ENERGY"
3)> Collaborate with neighborhoods currently affected by energy generation, including
geothermal, to ensure that such production is handled in a manner that prevents or
minimizes negative impacts on the surrounding community through the use of every
available technology to prevent toxic releases and constant source monitoring of all
intentional and accidental releases with permanent record keeping available for public
inspection.
> Ensure that along with constant monitoring that emergency response plans be
coordinated between generation sites, government agencies and affected
communities. Give serious consideration to phasing out generation facilities with a
record of violations and negative health impacts and ongoing risks to public health.
> Ensure that all future energy development is planned with the involvement of
affected communities, with all priorities given to reduced consumption and promoting
safest energy production technologies, including small scale decentralized production.
Solicit, recognize and honor indigenous host cultural and spiritual perspective on any
proposed development.
6)>Avoid geothermal development in inhabited lands (including residential and
agricultural lands) as well as conservation lands.
> ADD TO EXHIBIT E "EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND PROTECTIVE
SERVICES", Subsection "Corrections"
> Prioritize incorporating a restorative justice component to the criminal justice and
victims relief programs in order to create a viable component to reduce recidivism and
restore what is pono.
ADD TO EXHIBIT K °MILITARY"
> - Continue to encourage the military to account for and repair the environmental
impacts of depleted uranium and other environmentally destructive weaponry used in
the past. Discourage further environmentally harmful activities and request notification
if such activities are to occur.
> - Request that the military to effectively address the concerns that it appears many of
their training exercise are in violation of state laws preserving indigenous sacred sites.
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