TMT issues trespass notices

[Rob Tucker]

From the Trib:

http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/news/loc...protesters

A leader in the fight to stop the Thirty Meter Telescope from being built atop Mauna Kea was served with a trespass notice Monday by security guards stationed at the construction site.

Kahookahi Kanuha said he and several other protesters, some of whom are Native Hawaiians who call themselves protectors of the mountain they consider sacred, make routine trips, at least once a week, from their camp outside the Mauna Kea Visitor Information Station to the TMT project site near the summit to pule and chant.

“As native tenants of these lands, as hoa‘aina, we have rights to them,” he said. “We go up there for religious purposes, to pray, so that all of this hewa, all of this wrongdoing, that is being committed upon the mountain can hopefully be washed clean.”