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Gov David Ige says work can resume on Mauna Kea

Perfect Science: On Tuesday, Governor David Ige said a project to build a huge telescope near the summit of Mauna Kea can move forward, but Hawaii has failed the mountain in a lot of ways. Due to the protests and arrests of opponents, who blocked the construction workers from accessing the site, construction was halted since previous month on the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope. Ige added that it's the nonprofit telescope company that has to decide when the construction will resume. He mentioned that they...