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?Stalled construction costs 30 Meter Telescope millions
Posted by Pacific Business: None Given on January 24th, 2016
Pacific Business: The team behind the $1.4 billion telescope project planned for Mauna Kea has invested $170 million to date for construction and manufacturing, according to Stone.
“We spent eight years now getting the permit, and on Dec. 2 it was invalidated,” he said. “We went through the process, did everything we were asked to do, and it turned out that that was evidently not the right process, so now we’re waiting on what the process needs to be.”
The Hawaii Supreme Court decided last month that the TMT...
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Hawaii Supreme Court temporarily strips authority of TMT land permit
Posted by Pacific Business: None Given on November 18th, 2015
Pacific Business: The Hawaii Supreme Court has partially granted a group’s request to stall construction of the $1.4 billion telescope on Mauna Kea.
Mauna Kea Anaina Hou, and other appellants in the group suing the state for awarding a permit to the TMT Observatory Corp., made an emergency motion Nov. 16 for a "stay upon appeal" to the higher court, which would remove the permit’s authority.
Granting the request “in part,” the Supreme Court has temporarily invalidated the TMT Observatory Corp.’s conservation...
Hawaii State Supreme Court hears oral arguments Thirty Meter Telescope
Posted by Pacific Business: None Given on August 28th, 2015
Pacific Business: Attorneys representing the state, the University of Hawaii and opponents of the planned Thirty Meter Telescope project presented their cases in oral arguments before the Hawaii Supreme Court in Downtown Honolulu Thursday morning.
Mauna Kea Anaina Hou, Clarence Ching, Flores-Case Ohana, Deborah Ward, Paul Neves, and KAHEA: The Hawaiian Environmental Alliance filed a lawsuit against the Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources and University of Hawaii at Hilo, challenging the state-awarded permit...
TMT crews turn back from Hawaii mountain blocked by protesters
Posted by Pacific Business: None Given on June 25th, 2015
Pacific Business: Work crews for the Thirty Meter Telescope project failed to reach the construction site at the summit of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano Wednesday after hundreds of protesters opposed to the $1.4 billion observatory blocked the road, resulting in the arrests of several people. Some 300 protesters set up some two dozen lines across the Mauna Kea access road near the visitors center at the 9,200-foot elevation, blocking five trucks escorted by Hawaii County police cars, the Hawaii Tribune-Herald reports....
Thirty Meter Telescope construction resume Hawaii this week
Posted by Pacific Business: None Given on June 23rd, 2015
Pacific Business: Construction on the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii will resume Wednesday, nearly three months after work on the $1.4 billion project was halted when protesters objected to another observatory being built atop the Big Island’s Mauna Kea volcano, officials with the multinational consortium developing the project said.
Gov. David Ige last month said he supported the Thirty Meter Telescope project and said the state would enforce the TMT Observatory Corp.’s right to proceed with construction on...