TMT Hearings Broadcast

Na Leo O Hawaii television is also re-broadcasting and streaming the deliberations over the Thirty Meter Telescope planned for Mauna Kea?

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Interested in the Thirty Meter Telescope project for Mauna Kea but can’t make it to the Big Island?

Na Leo O Hawaii is streaming, broadcasting and re-broadcasting the hearings.

The last preliminary hearing was scheduled for Monday. The actual hearings are scheduled to start Thursday.

The gavel-to-gavel coverage will be carried live on Cable Channel 53 (for the island of Hawaii only) and live-streamed on the station’s website.

City Ethics board member Riki Amano. 9 aug 2016
Riki May Amano. Cory Lum/Civil Beat

“We hope that people would take advantage of being able to watch the day’s hearings as they unfold live, or at least the one replay that we will provide later each night,” said Stacy Higa, Na Leo TV’s president and CEO.

Construction of the TMT was halted indefinitely in 2015 after opponents, mainly Native Hawaiians and their supporters, blocked construction workers from reaching the summit.

Some Hawaiians consider Mauna Kea sacred, but others have argued for the value of astronomy.

Hearing officer Riki May Amano and attorneys are reviewing the issue in a contested case hearing.

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