"...TMT business manager David Goodman says 20 percent to 30 percent of the $1.4 billion will be spent in Hawaii, with most of that on Hawaii Island. In round numbers, that means about $300 million to $400 million spent in the state from groundbreaking in April 2014 to completion in 2022. That includes an estimated 300 temporary construction jobs on Hawaii Island..."
Id like to see these protesters do something real, for reality........ for the real Hawaiian Island chain, not put all this effort into pseudo mana and mythical aina BS...
ie try SAVING some endangered plants, they go extinct yearly here.. or at least try to learn about them .. the common 'local' I run into daily knows many of the non-native canoe plants ie Niu, Ulu, Kalo, Awa, etc. ...but are usually clueless on the endemic plants.. they know maybe 5-6 of the ca.1,000 native plants found here... Ohia, Koa, Sandalwood ('iliahi), Hala, Silversword, and maybe if lucky they know Naupaka...
if they are so into preserving their culture (now), go learn about Hawaii's natural history,.. heck the islands have been here for 30,000,000++ years (age of Kure), and these 2nd wave of Hawaiians we see today have been here for ONLY 800 years ...they killed off the 1st Hawaiians that made it here 1100 yrs before them, often called Menehune, but in reality were slaves and sacrificial victims to the 2nd wave, Menehune were called 'small in worth' not 'small in stature' (lost in translation by first haoles to write about them)... they were not small people or elves/brownies, they were 'worthless' and killed off...
so dont feel too sorry for these Hawaiians, they took land from others and killed them off, then 1778 came around and eventually they had done to them what they did to others.. w/o all the intentional masskillings... Haoles also taught them to be human.. not pick lice from each other hair (bond grooming) and eat it like monkeys, not encourage kids to have playsex or molest them (very common), not kill daughters/mothers/wives/sisters for eating a bananas, etc.... Haoles also wrote stuff down and saved their history.. they taught them to read and write, and by the late 19th Century, Hawaii was the most literate country in the World... go figure, damn haoles lol
end of rant...
aloha
ps want to learn about the real Hawaii, written about 200 years ago.. read this classic book .. a journal by a young man named Wm Ellis who walked around the Big Island and recorded the daily everyday lives of the common Hawaiian (this was in 1825, nearly 50 yrs after Cook, yet they still were savages in many ways...
https://books.google.com/books?id=dN8wuzrh6m8C&pg=PR1&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
(its also at the Hilo library in the room with the older Hawaiians books)...
other good reads on the BI... look up John Young/Isaac Davis, The Shipmans, The Lymans, Dampier/Byron/HMS Blonde, David Malo, etc....
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
