TMT - Contested Case Hearing Status - Hilo

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Thanks Tom.
I thought I would add that although the document is lengthy, a summery can be found at the beginning for anyone who would like to read the main points in a few minutes time.

There has been a great deal of misinformation about the TMT project circulated in social media, posted on the web, and here on Punaweb which is addressed in the findings. Here are a few of the claims that were investigated:

The TMT will not pollute groundwater, will not damage any historic sites, will not harm rare plants or animals, will not release toxic materials, and will not otherwise harm the environment. It will not significantly change the appearance of the summit of Mauna Kea from populated areas on Hawai‘i Island.
The TMT site and its vicinity were not used for traditional and customary native Hawaiian practices conducted elsewhere on Mauna Kea, such as depositing piko, quarrying rock for adzes, pilgrimages, collecting water from Lake Waiau, or burials. The site is not on the summit ridge, which is more visible, and, according to most evidence presented, more culturally important than the plateau 500 feet lower where TMT will be built.
Some groups perform ceremonies near the summit. The evidence shows that these ceremonies began after the summit access road and first telescopes were built, but, in any case, the TMT will not interfere with them.

“Facts fall from the poetic observer as ripe seeds.” -Henry Thoreau