07-26-2016, 08:15 AM
A priority to protect Mauna kea should include minimizing impacts being made to the environment, not encouraging more adverse impacts to happen.
In a prior EIS report regarding the summit of Mauna Kea, it states the TMT will not and could not further harm the summit environment, They state the TMT would Mitigate or have no adverse impact. It states that the damage done by current and past telescopes have already caused enough irreversible environmental damage that their project could no longer cause further damage.
I find this yet another similarity to the way the EIS report was written or read for the development of Geothermal in lower Puna. This helps move these large profit-driven projects through some of the biggest environmental and community hurdles without having to be held accountable to any of it in the future. See the Aquifer's or underground water in lower Puna could not be contaminated by Geothermal drilling or the chemicals used during Geothermal operations. The water here in Puna was stated to be contaminated to the point that this Geothermal development could move forward with no concerns or responsibility for futher contamination. jmo's.
In a prior EIS report regarding the summit of Mauna Kea, it states the TMT will not and could not further harm the summit environment, They state the TMT would Mitigate or have no adverse impact. It states that the damage done by current and past telescopes have already caused enough irreversible environmental damage that their project could no longer cause further damage.
I find this yet another similarity to the way the EIS report was written or read for the development of Geothermal in lower Puna. This helps move these large profit-driven projects through some of the biggest environmental and community hurdles without having to be held accountable to any of it in the future. See the Aquifer's or underground water in lower Puna could not be contaminated by Geothermal drilling or the chemicals used during Geothermal operations. The water here in Puna was stated to be contaminated to the point that this Geothermal development could move forward with no concerns or responsibility for futher contamination. jmo's.