Video by David Corrigan | Voice of Stephanie Salazar
Army officials with the Pohakuloa Training Area held a public scoping meeting at Hilo Intermediate School on Tuesday, on the proposed modernization and expansion of facilities at the military base located between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii.
The Army published a Notice of Intent that it plans to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement – or PEIS.
The army is seeking public input in order to evaluate the potential environmental effects associated with the modernization of training ranges, infrastructure, and support facilities at PTA.
The army says the upgrades would “improve the current shortfall in collective (group) live-fire training capabilities for units stationed in Hawaii.”
The PEIS will evaluate the potential impacts of constructing and operating an Infantry Platoon Battle Area that would include an Infantry Platoon Battle Course, Live-fire Shoothouse, and a Military Operations on Urban Terrain facility.
After an open house session, an open microphone session was held. Members of the public, who were not too happy with the military expansion at Pohakuloa, made their voices heard.
“We’ve had to endure this constant expansion of the occupation,” stated Kumu Hula Paul Neves. “Pretty soon the Big Island will no longer be the Big Island. Because it will be an island called the U.S. Military.”
One has to wonder what the frowning pinheads are writing while local people speak at the mike. Whey can’t the boys in uniform even look at the people they have wronged for so long? They’ve apparently set off increased cancer here, a grievous tort. Downwind of PTA is the highest cancer incidence in the state. It looks like the military have no interest in the persons delivering their public opinions. That figures, since they only rely on civilians for the moola to keep them in laundry, pensions, and expensive Phonywars.
The US military stole the Hawaiian crown in broad daylight. It don’t get much plainer than that wassup, folks..
These futile military shell games run by naive yesmen for the global bankster mafia will eventually end like all the other ploys of failing states. The US and its military rotted from within by DU will run out of money and take down the American nation, apparently in an engineered collapse to destroy the nation physically, spiritually, and economically. You mil guys were never big enough to honor our aina and malama the pono, and you aren’t big enough to honor your own Constitution either including not waging wars with poison gas weapons, which is what the PTA training teaches soldiers to execute on the countries invaded.
Come on Professor, just because the military sucks dry the US Treasury for their bosses at General Dynamics, paying off alot of people in Hawaii’s business community with a phony, unsustainable ‘boom’ (up til now) are you gonna blame the dirty laundry on the guys wearing it? Just because the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree?
Yes. They pull the trigger to ignite the DU rounds spreading nanoparticles of alpha radiation into the global troposphere. I hold them DIRECTLY responsible for the crime against our genome and their handlers and financiers are INDIRECTLY but EVEN MORE responsible. I am going to hold the troops responsible because they are bound to honor the Constitution against all enemies including their superior officers, the MIC, Israel, and the bankers causing the Phonywars. Nuremburg found that following orders is no excuse. These people need to know they are committing crimes against humanity by participating in this type of warfare with dirty bombs harming primarily innocent civilians for decades and centuries after battles.
Having contested the clean up and their continuation of spreading DU in the Hawaiian Islands on Jan 13, 2010, I find the process short sighted. It was a difficult and trying process to address DU spreading or aggregating in my community Waianae to meet the Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules and definiton. The Pentagon engaged in illegal activity of removing fire range soil from Schofield and trucked 900 tons of it into Waianae, Makua for over six months in Oct 2009 to May 2010, was a sad moment. Truckers trucked these poison dust along the Farrignton Hwy where children caught their school buses. A single nano particle induced into ones lungs is a fatal moment–over time that single nano particle kills! You see the ‘maka to maka’ argument is that cleaning up to the military means to aggregate the evidence on land, in people and our ocean currents, just as they have been doing since the testing of Nuclear bombs in the Pacific. A ‘broke mask’ full view of the military here in Hawaii is to kill all people in Hawaii. Before the AEC and NRC, I asked for an Exit Plan in my contention for our people, we simply cannot afford modernization ‘Hopper Homes’ that will filter the US military spread of depleted uranium. Pele flows throughout the entire Pacific Ocean, she has no boundaries and neither does the spread of DU. Depleted Uranium is NOT low, weak or safe–it cannot be burned or return to it’s natural state. A lie is a lie is a lie!
Professor Purdy, I hope to meet you one day. I’ve made many comments on this issue on Maoliworld.
KaohiWaianae, do you ‘facebook’ or have an email? I need to stay in touch and talk about he Big Island
if can. slwsurfing@yahoo.com