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