Aloha Pono,
Mahalo pumehana for being a part of the dedicated hui of individuals around Hawai`i, working to protect our sacred summits. We are writing to you today with an urgent alert! Your voice, and your testimony, are needed today! What's going on: The TMT Corporation and the University of Hawai`i Board of Regents are proposing to build a new massive, 18-story telescope, 21,000 square foot office building, road, and parking lot on conservation lands on Mauna Kea’s summit, called the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). Wrong for the mountain: Mauna Kea is unique in the world, a place of deep significance in the Hawaiian worldview, and home to rare Hawaiian plants and animals found nowhere else on the planet. Mauna Kea was honored among the sacred places of the world in a National Geographic (January 2011) Special Edition titled, “The Earth’s Holiest Places: Sacred Journeys.” What's next: The construction permit for the massive Thirty Meter Telescope complex will be considered by the Board of Land and Natural Resources on February 25, 2011. We think there is a real chance this permit could be denied, but we know there is a lot of pressure from developers to approve it. This permit is one of the last ones needed by the developers before construction can begin. The Land Board is scheduled to make its decision on this permit on February 25, 2011. Take Action! Join your voice with hundreds around Hawai`i! Click here to read sample testimony. (1) Please take just a few minutes today to tell the Land Board Members to reject this permit application, and take true, strong steps to protect the future of Mauna Kea. Take action today at http://bit.ly/TMT-CDUA-testimony! (2) Tell friends and family! We have only a few days to get as many many people as possibly to write in to the Land Board! You can email, twitter, facebook the link to this action alert: http://bit.ly/TMT-CDUA-testimony. Send to `ohana, neighbors, friends and coworkers! (3) Learn more! You can download this factsheet to read and share at http://bit.ly/TMTfactsheet or by visiting our website: http://kahea.org/issues/sacred-summits Mahalo pumehana for your heart for Mauna Kea! I mua Marti (+ the rest of "Us Guys" at KAHEA) -- Marti Townsend Staff Attorney/Program Director KAHEA: The Hawaiian-Environmental Alliance http://www.kahea.org http://blog.kahea.org 1149 Bethel St., #415 Honolulu, HI 96813 phone/fax: 808-524-8220 or 877-585-2432 (toll-free, all islands)
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