What the article says to me is that the TMT consortium is confident enough in trying again to get all the right permits to make this project possible on Mauna Kea. It also tells me that, despite other comments, TMT does not feel that the process is rigged to deny them the permit after a legal, fair, and transparent process. If they did feel that way, we'd be reading now where they broke ground on TMT in another location. 

Hawaii, regardless of the final decision by hearings officer Amano,  still has a chance to show it's best foot forward by sticking to the facts during the hearings. After all,  there will be a lot of people watching, both in and outside of Hawaii, on how this goes down.