· In the Use Determination Application the drone is repeatedly referred to as an “airplane” and “aircraft” but airports are not allowed on agricultural land. A Hawaiian cultural practitioner has filed a petition to intervene in the process. The project was slated to begin this fall, but has been pushed back to March 2020.
· On August 8 the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted the HAWK30 a COA2, a Certificate of Authorization issued by the Air Traffic side of FAA that permits these drones to operate over Lana’i, Kaho’olawe, Molokini and the ocean, right in the middle of a Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. A COA is typically issued for 2 years.
· One Hawk30 drone broadcasts the equivalent of 1800 cell towers, albeit at a much lower power level, however, power is irrelevant to health effects except for tissue heating.
Thousands of peer reviewed research studies document the non-thermal effects of wireless radiation on humans and other living things. In some experiments the lowest power levels caused the most leakage in the blood-brain barrier. An inverse relationship between power and health effects has even been shown. Wireless technology is not made safe by reducing the
power.
· Despite announcing as early as July 16 that, due to public outcry, 5G was removed from the project, and then changing their story in a press release, it took until August 30 for the developers to revise their Use Determination Application to reflect this promise to the community
· Even though the Application was amended to replace 5G with 4G, 5G can be brought back in the future at any time and the applicants have publicly stated this.
· Although 4G is to be used instead, beaming 4G wireless radiation into the land, into the ocean, into our homes, into our bodies is not healthy for humans or safe for the environment