TMT - Contested Case Hearing Status - Hilo

[galileo]

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Originally posted by TomK

"If you read Lee's written testimony, you can see that his English skills are at the grade school level."

Galileo - skills in the English language are not part of the contested case hearing. That's taking things a little too far.

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From what has been presented so far, the petitioners opposed to the TMT have not provided strong evidence that the TMT does not satisfy the eight criteria for construction in a conservation district. They are going to lose their case. DLNR will approve the CDUA. Then some of the petitioners will probably appeal to the Hawaiian Supreme Court.

At some point Lee's 11 pages of incoherent ramblings will probably be read by the judges; his primitive writing level really hinders his ability to make whatever points he was trying to make.

Note that Kwan did not ask him any questions regarding his background in physics, whether he studied Maxwell's equations or even if he knew the name of the unit of measurement for magnetism. He simply got Lee to acknowledge that the burial spots in Lee's maps are not on the TMT site or even in the astronomy district.