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?
Interested in the Thirty Meter Telescope project for Mauna Kea but can’t make it to the Big Island?
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聽Cable Channel 53 (for the island of Hawaii only) and live-streamed聽on the station’s website.
“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聽opponents, mainly聽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聽reviewing the issue in a contested case hearing.
