If the project can’t proceed in Hawaii, telescope officials have identified an alternate site on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands. He noted the center included exhibits about the project planned for the Big Island’s Mauna Kea, Hawaii’s tallest mountain.Associate Justice Richard Pollack asked why Amano later cancelled her membership in response to the concerns.The Hawaii Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday in an appeal that could determine whether an embattled multi-nation telescope project can be built on a mountain Native Hawaiians consider sacred or have to move to a backup site in Spain’s Canary Islands that’s less desirable to scientists hoping to use the instrument for groundbreaking discoveries.

In 2015, the state Supreme Court invalidated the permit, saying the board’s approval process was flawed, and ordered the project to go through the steps again. David Ige, who supports the Fiberglass insulated ladder telescope, said in a statement hours after Thursday’s hearing he recognizes “our community has honest disagreements about this telescope and its place on Mauna Kea, and my administration has carefully followed the procedures required to ensure a fair consideration of dissenting voices.“She should have never presided over the case,” Richard Wurdeman, an attorney representing telescope opponents, told the justices.4 billion. Construction stopped in 2015 after 31 demonstrators were arrested for blocking the work.The project won a series of approvals from Hawaii, including a permit to build on conservation land in 2011.Plans for the 30-meter (98 feet) diameter telescope date to 2009, when scientists selected Mauna Kea after a five-year, worldwide campaign to find the ideal site for what telescope officials said will likely revolutionize understanding of the universe.

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