11-23-2018, 05:24 AM
T-H Headline Nov 23: "TMT opponents want high court to reconsider ruling"
Excerpts:
"Opponents of the Thirty Meter Telescope are getting some help from other Native Hawaiian leaders and a former state Supreme Court justice in their request for reconsideration of a recent ruling in favor of the $1.4 billion project.
Appellants of the Conservation District Use Permit that allows the next-generation observatory to be built on Maunakea filed the request Tuesday, which asks the high court to reconsider the ruling and adopt a dissenting opinion from Associate Justice Michael Wilson.
He wrote impacts to the summit are already “substantially adverse” and that the state Board of Land and Natural Resources, which approved the permit, was applying a “degradation principle” to Maunakea that “extinguishes the legal protection afforded to natural resources in the conservation district.”
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/201...er-ruling/
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The media have portrayed native Hawaiians as the major force trying to block TMT, but I bet it is environmentalists. Strategy meetings between the two groups of TMT opponents likely agreed that it is best for native Hawaiians to take the lead--to primarily use the argument that telescope building on the mountain is cultural infringement.
Environmentalists, of course, like to put forth the narrative that indigenous people always are environmentalists.
Not always. In several indigenous cultures in the Amazon, some tribes use few modern technologies other than machetes, pots and chain saws. Otherwise, these tribes pretty much live off the land, in a traditional way. They're environmentalists.
Native Hawaiians, much less so. If you look around Hawaii to see who is truly living off the land, it is a small contingent. Mostly white so-called Puna hippies who eschew materialism and live in tiny cabins. Walking the walk. Native Hawaiians, it seems, are much more apt to like 4-wheel drives and live in regular houses with stereos and big screen TVs (excluding homeless native Hawaiians. But they have not taken to nature for survival).
Houses or apartments like most of us elect to live in.
I suspect most of the hardcore environmentalists in Hawaii are college educated whites. Members of the Sierra Club. More apt to live in a town or city in Hawaii than on a rural farm. So they are closer to the courts, where they can file lawsuits.
Sorry to bring up the race/culture thing here, but is it not native Hawaiian opposition--a race/culture thing--that is challenging an important project to Hawaii? With help from a predominantly non-native Hawaiian group (environmentalists) that prefers to fight from the background on the TMT case?
Excerpts:
"Opponents of the Thirty Meter Telescope are getting some help from other Native Hawaiian leaders and a former state Supreme Court justice in their request for reconsideration of a recent ruling in favor of the $1.4 billion project.
Appellants of the Conservation District Use Permit that allows the next-generation observatory to be built on Maunakea filed the request Tuesday, which asks the high court to reconsider the ruling and adopt a dissenting opinion from Associate Justice Michael Wilson.
He wrote impacts to the summit are already “substantially adverse” and that the state Board of Land and Natural Resources, which approved the permit, was applying a “degradation principle” to Maunakea that “extinguishes the legal protection afforded to natural resources in the conservation district.”
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/201...er-ruling/
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The media have portrayed native Hawaiians as the major force trying to block TMT, but I bet it is environmentalists. Strategy meetings between the two groups of TMT opponents likely agreed that it is best for native Hawaiians to take the lead--to primarily use the argument that telescope building on the mountain is cultural infringement.
Environmentalists, of course, like to put forth the narrative that indigenous people always are environmentalists.
Not always. In several indigenous cultures in the Amazon, some tribes use few modern technologies other than machetes, pots and chain saws. Otherwise, these tribes pretty much live off the land, in a traditional way. They're environmentalists.
Native Hawaiians, much less so. If you look around Hawaii to see who is truly living off the land, it is a small contingent. Mostly white so-called Puna hippies who eschew materialism and live in tiny cabins. Walking the walk. Native Hawaiians, it seems, are much more apt to like 4-wheel drives and live in regular houses with stereos and big screen TVs (excluding homeless native Hawaiians. But they have not taken to nature for survival).
Houses or apartments like most of us elect to live in.
I suspect most of the hardcore environmentalists in Hawaii are college educated whites. Members of the Sierra Club. More apt to live in a town or city in Hawaii than on a rural farm. So they are closer to the courts, where they can file lawsuits.
Sorry to bring up the race/culture thing here, but is it not native Hawaiian opposition--a race/culture thing--that is challenging an important project to Hawaii? With help from a predominantly non-native Hawaiian group (environmentalists) that prefers to fight from the background on the TMT case?
