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The board of governors for the Thirty-Meter Telescope has chosen an alternate site for construction that could allow it to cut its losses in Mauna Kea:
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) could move to La Palma, in Spain's Canary Islands, if opposition from Native Hawaiians prevents the next-generation observatory from being built atop the Hawaiian mountain of Mauna Kea as planned.
The decision, announced on 31 October by the TMT International Observatory's board of governors, creates an alternative path forward for the troubled mega-telescope. Its opponents blocked access to the Mauna Kea site in April 2015, halting construction, although work on the telescope's components continues at sites around the world. Native Hawaiians regard the decision to build the TMT on Mauna Kea as the continued desecration of a sacred mountaintop that hosts 13 other telescopes, some of which are being decommissioned.
In December, Hawaii's state supreme court nullified the permit that would have allowed the TMT to proceed. A fresh round of hearings began this month, with TMT officials seeking a new permit from the state's Bureau of Land and Natural Resources.
Previously:
Thirty Meter Telescope Considering Move as Hawaii Officials Open Hearing
Hawaiian Court Revokes Permit for Construction of Thirty-Meter-Telescope
Protests Temporarily Halt Thirty-Meter Telescope's Construction in Hawaii
(Score: 3, Informative) by Username on Tuesday November 01 2016, @10:50AM
Let’s face it, the only reason for the use of the word native is to conjure up feelings of a persecuted class in a leftist mind. Everyone who is born in hawaii is native to hawaii. They just don’t want some shitting building ruining their picturesque mountain. That doesn’t require some persecution complex.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 01 2016, @03:08PM
> Everyone who is born in hawaii is native to hawaii.
Are you 12? Because as someone actually born in Hawaii under the shadow of maunakea, that's the kind of stupid ass shit I used to say when I was 12.
> They just don’t want some shitting building ruining their picturesque mountain.
No, the observatories actually look pretty damn picturesque on top of the mountain. Well, they are just little white bumps that you can barely even tell are there [dreamstime.com] if you aren't looking for them, but otherwise they look pretty great.
> That doesn’t require some persecution complex.
Fuck you.