08-08-2016, 10:13 AM
Opihikao, thank you for sharing your thoughts.
I see so many disturbing things about this process, you touched on only a few of them. This is so sickening to watch what I call bullies and puppets running over the rest of the public's rights while manipulating and dividing our many Hawaiian communities.
I don't trust the intentions of folks like Kaleikini, Ha, Ishibashi, and others in this TMT process anymore because of how invested they were in the process to increase Geothermal power from Puna "only". They did not help or make it a priority to get any of the health or environmental studies started out here in Puna before the increases. They also did not explore the option of geothermal resources and operations coming from other communities on Maui or Kona enough. Which would have put the geothermal power plants closer to the majority of those needing it and help prevent a greater loss or waste of the so called Pele's gift's along the way.
The TMT project may bring a 5-10 million dollar "a year" type of electricity bill with the project for the next 70 plus years. Most of which would be Geothermal produced electricity by the year the TMT project becomes operational, or soon after. Some Hawaiians and others would stand to gain in royalties and opportunities from this TMT project while the remaining majority of Hawaiians and other local residents here are sacrificing their way of life.
Personally, I find it harder to trust smug faced folks like Ashida, Kimura, Roahrig, Kenoi, UHH, the governor and others because of the feeling that big money may matter more at times than the people they were sworn in to represent. jmo
Did anyone ever get to hear what Mr Ferguson had to say about any or all of those motions he was concerned about? Also, did Mr, Kanuha get a chance to be heard?
Enough is Enough, the rest of these meetings or proceedings should just take place on the same sacred ground this TMT project wants to stand on for 70 years. The environmental concerns like dust increase that these proceedings could have or bring to the summit of Mauna Kea "if" they were held there would be minimal compared to what could be expected from the many TMT employees and tourist operations that would be taking place daily on the summit for the remainder of this century. jmo
P.S. Just joking about these proceedings possibly taking place atop the summit of Mauna Kea (this, of course, would be very disrespectful for many reasons).
I see so many disturbing things about this process, you touched on only a few of them. This is so sickening to watch what I call bullies and puppets running over the rest of the public's rights while manipulating and dividing our many Hawaiian communities.
I don't trust the intentions of folks like Kaleikini, Ha, Ishibashi, and others in this TMT process anymore because of how invested they were in the process to increase Geothermal power from Puna "only". They did not help or make it a priority to get any of the health or environmental studies started out here in Puna before the increases. They also did not explore the option of geothermal resources and operations coming from other communities on Maui or Kona enough. Which would have put the geothermal power plants closer to the majority of those needing it and help prevent a greater loss or waste of the so called Pele's gift's along the way.
The TMT project may bring a 5-10 million dollar "a year" type of electricity bill with the project for the next 70 plus years. Most of which would be Geothermal produced electricity by the year the TMT project becomes operational, or soon after. Some Hawaiians and others would stand to gain in royalties and opportunities from this TMT project while the remaining majority of Hawaiians and other local residents here are sacrificing their way of life.
Personally, I find it harder to trust smug faced folks like Ashida, Kimura, Roahrig, Kenoi, UHH, the governor and others because of the feeling that big money may matter more at times than the people they were sworn in to represent. jmo
Did anyone ever get to hear what Mr Ferguson had to say about any or all of those motions he was concerned about? Also, did Mr, Kanuha get a chance to be heard?
Enough is Enough, the rest of these meetings or proceedings should just take place on the same sacred ground this TMT project wants to stand on for 70 years. The environmental concerns like dust increase that these proceedings could have or bring to the summit of Mauna Kea "if" they were held there would be minimal compared to what could be expected from the many TMT employees and tourist operations that would be taking place daily on the summit for the remainder of this century. jmo
P.S. Just joking about these proceedings possibly taking place atop the summit of Mauna Kea (this, of course, would be very disrespectful for many reasons).