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Hawaii Court Rescinds Permit Build Thirty Meter Telescope
Posted by New York Times: Dennis Overbye on December 5th, 2015
New York Times: The State Supreme Court has rescinded the construction permit for the Thirty Meter Telescope, a $1.4 billion observatory planned for the state’s tallest mountain, Mauna Kea, a revered symbol in Hawaiian culture. Construction of the telescope, an international collaboration led by the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, had been stalled since April, when protesters blocked crews from the site. According to the decision handed down Wednesday afternoon, the state’s...