Pray for Mauna Kea: TMT Contested Case begins this week
Aloha kakou!
The big day is upon us! Tomorrow is the first day of the contested case hearing on the construction permit for the Thirty-Meter Telescope, the new 18-story, 5-acre telescope proposed for the conservation district of Mauna Kea. The Mauna Kea hui -- an informal group of concerned community members -- is making the case for why the TMT cannot be legally granted this construction permit. (View our opening brief here) If you support protecting Mauna Kea from industrialization, then the hui could use your support. (View a quick fact sheet on the impacts of the proposed TMT)
Please send the hui members positive vibes today and throughout the week. And if can, try stop by -- for any length of time. The hearing will be held from 9 am to 4 pm, August 15-18th -- additional hearing dates may be announced. The hearing will be held at conference rooms A and B at the Hilo State Building (75 Aupuni St.) everyday except on Tuesday, August 16th, when it will be at Hilo Community College (1175 Manono St), Building 388, Rm. 101. Invite others to come, shirts and signs are great--if you know how to livetweet or facebook from the hearing room, please do so!
If you cannot come to the hearing, then please keep the hui in your thoughts as they proceed through this difficult process. Although this is the second contested case hearing that this hui has had to engage in (they won the last one in 2007 when the 6 Keck Telescopes were proposed for Mauna Kea), we still appreciate the moral support of those who would like to see the mountain protected from industrialization.
To learn more about the hearing and some of the petitioners that make up the Mauna Kea hui, click here. If you scroll to the bottom of the blog, there are links to meet other hui members.
It has been a long journey to this point. Mahalo pumehana to all who have come along on this path, to fight for what is pono, what is sacred, and what is true -- a future where this and other wahi pana are respected and protected into perpetuity.
Eo Mauna Kea!
Comments
Pray that Luwella KAOHI Leonardi won't be able to attend the Hearing on Mauna Kea!
As the people of Hawaii don't need to hear the HATE and LIES of KAOHI.
A "Complete Embassement to the Hawaiian Culture" is KAOHI!
I kicked google earth out of our community and yesterday another person showed up with rockets to measure our plume. Studying our wind direction should be done by our native Hawaiians and not outsiders is my point.
Its not okay to work in partnership with Anglos without the native practicioners view point. I have been to Kit Peak in Arizona and because of the their Aztec culture, they gave respect, so it seems, to the first culture.
Kilo fights are this line of defense, and this is an old age problem that if one is cognizant of history one can go to any mountain top in Hawaii and see evidence of this line of defense.