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Jun 14, 2009
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Just say, "No Way!"
by: Nnoi'i

My brothers and sisters of Hawaii, Any explanations or reasons that we present to the Destroyers of Mauna Kea and our Islands, as to why we oppose their propositions to build their outragous telescope on Mauna Kea, only fuels them with ammunition as to know how to figure a way around our goal, to save Mauna Kea! Whether it be for sacred burial sites, they'll find a legal way to appease that stance, ruining the landscape with more roads may already give them the idea that they can then build it on the land that they already have ruined against what was agreed upon. We must demand that they remove all telescopes that they have erected against what was originally agreed upon by their own Laws or be taken to international court proceedures if necessary. There is no room for discussion in this matter, the "People of Hawai'i" will have their say once and for all!!

Oct 07, 2008
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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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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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