KAHEA https://kahea.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 5. KAHEA's response to Supreme Court's decision to affirm Thirty-Meter Telescope Construction https://kahea.org/kaheas-response-to-supreme-courts-decision-to-affirm-thirty-meter-telescope-construction-1 We are disappointed by the state Supreme Court's majority decision to affirm the Land Board's approval of the University of Hawaii's permit to allow the Thirty-Meter Telescope corporation's project in a pristine area of Mauna Kea. We are disappointed by the state Supreme Court's majority decision to affirm the Land Board's approval of the University of Hawaii's permit to allow the Thirty-Meter Telescope corporation's project in a pristine area of Mauna Kea. The opinion wrongly relies on representations that there is "no evidence" of Hawaiian cultural practices on the specific acreage proposed for the TMT. Thousands of Hawaiian cultural practitioners have affirmed the sacredness of the entirety of Mauna Kea. Thousands more have supported the protection of Mauna Kea from the TMT project. The Court's opinion has done nothing to change this. We call on the University, Governor Ige, and TMT officers to put the well being of the people of Hawai`i first and to relocate their project away from Mauna Kea.

]]> No publisher Lauren Muneoka mauna kea supreme court thirty meter telescope 2018-10-30T23:53:45Z Blog Entry KAHEA's response to Supreme Court's decision to affirm Thirty-Meter Telescope Construction https://kahea.org/kaheas-response-to-supreme-courts-decision-to-affirm-thirty-meter-telescope-construction We are disappointed by the state Supreme Court's majority decision to affirm the Land Board's approval of the University of Hawaii's permit to allow the Thirty-Meter Telescope corporation's project in a pristine area of Mauna Kea. We are disappointed by the state Supreme Court's majority decision to affirm the Land Board's approval of the University of Hawaii's permit to allow the Thirty-Meter Telescope corporation's project in a pristine area of Mauna Kea. The opinion wrongly relies on representations that there is "no evidence" of Hawaiian cultural practices on the specific acreage proposed for the TMT. Thousands of Hawaiian cultural practitioners have affirmed the sacredness of the entirety of Mauna Kea. Thousands more have supported the protection of Mauna Kea from the TMT project. The Court's opinion has done nothing to change this. We call on the University, Governor Ige, and TMT officers to put the well being of the people of Hawai`i first and to relocate their project away from Mauna Kea.

]]> No publisher Lauren Muneoka thirty meter telescope testimony telescope telescopes 2018-10-30T23:50:08Z Press Release KAHEA's statement on the Land Board's approval of the TMT permit https://kahea.org/press-room/press-releases/kaheas-statement-on-the-land-boards-approval-of-the-tmt-permit KAHEA's statement on the Land Board's approval of the TMT permit CONTACT:
Shelley Muneoka
(808) 524-8220
shelleymuneoka@gmail.com
www.kahea.org

Mauna Kea is the anchor for kanaka maoli, it is our collective mana, which is being stripped and disrespected. Our deities exist in its winds, its rains and mist and dew, and its snows. The elemental nature of the Mauna reaffirms from where we come and where we now stand.

This is not the first time that the state Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) has failed to enforce constitutional and legal protections for conservation district lands, native Hawaiian cultural practices and the environmental resources upon which those practices depend. For two decades, a hui of Hawaiian cultural practitioners and environmental justice advocates have worked tirelessly to bring attention to these issues and to be voices of reason against unfettered development of our sacred Mauna Kea. In 2015, the Hawai'i Supreme Court invalidated BLNR's approval of the TMT permit. BLNR has missed another opportunity to do the right thing and KAHEA and other community petitioners are faced with the burden of fixing those failures, yet again.

The next step will be the court appeal. Both the Hearing Officer and the BLNR have committed some of the same procedural violations that the Hawai'i Supreme Court cautioned against. Both those for and against the TMT earlier sought to disqualify the Hearing Officer, and similarly, objected to participation by board members with conflicts of interest. We emphasize also that the TMT International Observatory Corporation does not have a sublease for its use of Mauna Kea lands. Construction should not begin before all legal processes have run their course. We've been here before, we are here now, and we are here in the days and years to come.

]]> No publisher Lauren Muneoka thirty meter telescope mauna kea maunakea testimony telescopes 2017-10-04T22:30:00Z Press Release News article on the upcoming TMT Case https://kahea.org/blog/tmt-case-in-the-newspaper Summary of some of the arguments presented by Community petitioners in opposition to the TMT, and UH in support of the TMT. Sigh. Not super exciting, but at least the case is getting some news coverage. Definitely more to this case, though, than what is written here.

One major point needs correction, though.  The Hawaii Tribune Herald writes that the TMT:

"...would be built on the northwest plateau of Mauna Kea, several hundred feet below the true summit, and would be visible from lower elevations on the Kohala side of the mountain."

According to the TMT's own viewplane analysis, the TMT would be visible from the summit looking towards Haleakala and the setting sun.  It would also be visible to those looking up towards the summit from the Northside of Hawaii Island -- all of Waimea, Kohala, Pu`ukohala, on the road to Honoka`a.  So to say it would be "visible from lower elevations" is such an understatement that it is misleading.

Click here to read the whole story: "Both Sides File Briefs in TMT case" from the Hawai`i Tribune Herald.

]]> No publisher marti@kahea.org thirty meter telescope 2011-07-06T01:53:24Z Blog Entry Hawaiians, mountain in 'Avatar'-like struggle https://kahea.org/blog/hawaiians-mountain-in-avatar-like-struggle From Marti:

Great editorial in the Sacramento Bee yesterday about the analogies between the struggle depicted in the movie Avatar and the real world struggle to protect the last pristine plateau of Mauna Kea. Here’s a quote:

The California astronomers’ “unobtanium” quest – research papers revealing “the secrets of the universe” and identifying planets beyond our solar system – is certainly more noble than mining minerals, but it’s another example of promoting one culture’s notion of progress by overriding another’s reverence for the land. As in the movie, behind the Mauna Kea invaders stands the big money of a starry-eyed entrepreneur, Intel co-founder and telescope donor Gordon Moore.

Particularly rich was the comment posted by Richard Ha about the importance of process. Totally agree, Uncle, which is why we oppose a plan to manage the summit conservation district that is written by the lead-developer of the summit.  Just as one example, the plan puts no limit on the number of telescopes that could be built on the summit.

This is not surprising.  For decades, the University of Hawaii has promised to better protect the natural and cultural resources of the summit while actively destroying them.  This TMT+CMP combo is just the latest example.

]]> No publisher Marti Townsend CMP TMT University of Hawaii astronomy avatar conservation environmental justice mauna kea telescope telescopes thirty meter telescope 2010-03-10T23:18:00Z Blog Entry