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TMT Case: Project Manager Gary Sanders Takes Stand

by Big Island Video News
on Jan 4, 2017 at 7:28 am

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STORY SUMMARY

HILO (BIVN) - Thirty Meter Telescope project manager Gary Sanders testifies on the observatory design, decommissioning, funding, and impacts.

HILO, Hawaii – On Tuesday, January 3, the contested case hearing for the Thirty Meter Telescope resumed at the Crown Room at the Grand Naniloa Hotel. Gary Sanders, the project manager for the $1.5 billion observatory planned for Mauna Kea took the witness stand for the TMT Observatory Corporation and faced intense cross-examination from opponents of the project.




ABOVE VIDEO: TMT Contested Case participants Deborah Ward and Kealoha Pisciotta question Sanders on funding from the National Science Foundation, and why it did not trigger a Section 106 consultation / National Environmental Policy Act – Environmental Impact Statement process. (January 3, 2017)




ABOVE VIDEO: TMT Contested Case participant Mehana Kihoi, with her daughter by her side, presses Sanders on how the observatory project will benefit Hawaiian children during cross-examination. (January 4, 2017)




ABOVE VIDEO: TMT Contested Case participant Pua Case questions Sanders on the TMT International Observatory’s decommissioning plans, and whether or not a convincing assurance has been made that the site will be adequately restored when the observatory’s work is finished. (January 4, 2017)

Big Island Video News will be uploading multiple segments from Sanders’ testimony and cross-examination to this page.


Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Gary Sanders, Mauna Kea, Thirty Meter Telescope, TMT Contested Case

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