05-08-2015, 01:53 AM
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Originally posted by gypsy69
Questions and concerns:
First off how does such a project like TMT get fast tracked? Being that some of the 1.2 billion or 1.5 billion to build this project was PuBliC money, some from our university also. Then why no federal EIS report, should be mandatory? Once this TMT observatory is built, is it going to be decommissioned 8 years later in 2033 with the others when the current contract expires? Or has new contracts already been extended or decided on by the university, state, oha, and the rest of the science and military world not Hawaiian?
Concerned about waste and water contamination, Mercury has been "reportedly" spilled 9 times or more atop maunakea by the 13 current working telescopes. Could we expect more with the larger addition of TMT? In the 1960's one telescope was permitted and granted atop maunakea, now we see max exploitation and 13 observatories with the biggest one yet being fast tracked only decades later.
Most who are against the TMT project being done atop Maunakea are NOT against science OR the TMT, most would LIKE it to happen too, just NOT atop Maunakea. Construction for such a project like the TMT could take a decade and be the absolute worst to the environment atop maunakea during that tenure. The construction jobs should all be local, while the annual million a year fund should be tripled during this ten years of environmental harm, jmo. shame on all those who have pushed this TMT project down the Hawaiians throats, where has OHA been and who have they been representing or working for the past 7 years? Once money like that kind is offered or accepted its very hard to give back or not take it, that's if they haven't already been budgeting or spending it too?
You really asked, Where is the EIS? Not that I expect you to read it, but here it is. It is quite large and very comprehensive.
http://dlnr.hawaii.gov/occl/files/2013/0...e-Vol1.pdf
There will be hundreds of LOCAL UNION LABOR people employed throughout the years of construction. This will include people from virtually every trade, from Teamsters to carpenters to electricians, etc.
I actually wonder when the local unions will start protesting against the protestors!