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To Leave Your Mana`o on the proposed Mauna Kea Telescopes follow this link

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I have also added a couple letters concerning this issue to this section.

Aloha David

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Oct 07, 2008
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starstarstarstarstar 		Meeting on October 6th
by: Ku

Hi All,

I attended the meeting in Kohala last night.

The program was broken down as follows:

5:00 - 6:00 Open House

6:00 - 6:35 Presentations (by Sandra Dawson (EIS manager) and Anneila
Sargent (astronomer/educator)

6:36 - 8:00 Facilitated Public Comment

Those in attendence - in addition to the 2 people above:

Facilitators - David Tarnas and David Ka'apu

EIS process specialists - Jim Hayes and Scot Polzin

They made lots of todo about not building on any pu'u, that only private
money is being used and that there will be no defense or military
involvement. They stressed, because of only private source moneys being used - that the EIS will be prepared per State of Hawai'i Chapter 343
requirements alone.

I think they want to distance themselves from any kind of federal involvement - especially the "federal" NASA generated EIS for the Outriggers. However - I don't think they can get out of having to comply with all of NEPA's (National Environmental Policy Act's) requirements.

There were about 5 people who testified - roughly - 3 for, 1 neutral and 1
against (he was complaining about a possible military involvement).
May 27, 2008
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starstarstarstarstar 		The "Plan" is to build more telescopes! Mine is to stop them!
by: Ku Ching

Interestingly, as the "summit" area is filling or filled - the "big" push is to build the "30 meter" telescope that will occupy 36 acres - a parcel of land that is not available on the summit - or if it were - would need the leveling of many pu'u.

The site for this scope is being planned for a pristine area (no present telescopes and no infrastructure) of the mountain. Such a project would require new roads into presently "roadless" areas, new power lines that will criss-cross the mountain (and be a further drain on Hawai'i island electric capacity - which means possible increased rates for everyone) and a new incursion into a new "level" of the mountain - where many burials are known and expected.

While burials at the summit aren't normally expected because it was "the realm of the gods and goddesses" and very kapu, many burials are expected at lower levels - as "they" (the astronomers) are now planning to encroach upon the "realm of the Kanaka" (the people).

While the "recent" NASA EIS concluded that "from a cumulative perspective, the impact of past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future activities on cultural and biological resources is substantial, adverse and significant," this process is another attempt to build more telescopes on the mountain.

Ku

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