In a decision issued August 3, 2006 Judge Glenn Hara of the Third Circuit Court reversed the permit granted to the University of Hawaiʻi Institute of Astronomy by the state Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) to build additional telescopes. The ruling stops NASA’s $50 million plan to construct up to six more telescopes on Mauna Kea.

For more information please see the following links:
Too much telescope
Big Island Weekly
November 7, 2007
http://www.bigislandweekly.com/articles/2007/11/07/read/news/news01.txt

The New Mauna Kea Management Plan: Mobolizing Public Involvement
Kahea – Hawaiian Environmental Alliance
Winter 2006
http://www.kahea.org/enews/dec_06/index.html

Hawaiʻi Judge Reverses Permit for More Mauna Kea Telescopes
Environment News Service
August 7, 2006
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2006/2006-08-07-04.asp

History of Mauna Kea Controversy
Sacred Land Film Project
August 2006
http://www.sacredland.org/endangered_sites_pages/mauna_kea.html

Cultures clash atop Mauna Kea
The Honolulu Advertiser – Island Life
Sunday, July 9, 2006
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Jul/09/il/FP607090319.html

Sacred Temple or Window on the Universe – Or Both?
Honolulu Weekly
March 27, 2002
http://www.honoluluweekly.com/archives

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