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A second contested case hearing has wrapped up for the US$1.4 billion multinational project to build a 30 metre telescope on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea.
The mountain, Hawai‘i’s highest peak, is already home to 13 telescopes making it one of the world’s largest observatories.
But Pua Case, a spokesperson for Mauna Kea ‘Ohana, said the mountain holds great spiritual significance for native Hawaiians, and they will go to the US Supreme Court if the ruling goes against them.
“We will no longer be manipulated, bullied, bribed – we cannot succumb to the little that they give for scholarships or telling us that this is for economic gain,” she said. “We must stand.”
Case said the group has opposed the construction of the 13 other telescopes on the mountain since 1968 and now they are saying no more.