02-06-2016, 11:04 AM
quote:This description isn't exactly what happened. The judge here is the judge that originally approved the permit. Now that the state supreme court has overturned that ruling, the judge needs an order from the protesters' lawyer to vacate that earlier judgement. He has 10 days to do that.
Originally posted by Aaron S
http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/news...land-board
A judge on Thursday cleared the way for a new round of hearings by the state Board of Land and Natural Resources on the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope near the summit of Mauna Kea.
Richard Naiwieha Wurdeman has 10 days to prepare the order, but a second round of hearings on TMT permitting could take months, perhaps years. TMT officials have previously said they would continue the process.
It was going to take 8 years to build TMT, so if the hearings extend into years of being in the courts, the technology of mirror/lens telescopes may be going obsolete by then. It seems likely if the litigation appears to be a several year effort, the location would be changed to Atacama, not by choice but by necessity.
"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*