TMT construction begins Monday 15 July

[knieft]

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Originally posted by TomK

Kirt - if you are referring to Jessica Dempsey's press conference, she was stating the MK Observatories' combined decision. Observatory staff were removed from the mountain because of safety concerns due to problems accessing the mountain above the checkpoint on the Mauna Kea access road. The concern is that people could be trapped on the mountain and in e.g., a case of a medical emergency, this is simply too much of a risk to take.

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Yes. Exactly. Another post got stuck in between and it wasn’t clear. My bad.

But my point is yours.

Cheers,
Kirt