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State Issues New Guidelines On Media’s Mauna Kea Access
Posted by Civil Beat: Anita Hofschneider on November 16th, 2015
Civil Beat: The state Department of Land and Natural Resources has issued news media guidelines for journalists and photojournalists who plan to report on efforts to resume work on the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea.
Construction has been at a standstill since Native Hawaiian activists and other telescope protesters blocked construction crews last April, resulting in dozens of arrests. A similar confrontation took place in June when the TMT tried and failed to resume construction, and another...
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Hawaii Supreme Court Grills State on Approval of Thirty Meter Telescope
Posted by Civil Beat: Anita Hofschneider on August 28th, 2015
Civil Beat: Hawaii Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism about the state Land Board’s process of approving construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea during oral arguments in a case challenging the state’s endorsement of the $1.4 billion project. The justices grilled state attorneys Thursday about whether the Board of Land and Natural Resources was wrong to approve a permit for the project in 2011 prior to holding a contested case hearing. State attorneys argued that the 2011 permit was...