Land Board Puts More Restrictions on UH’s Haleakala Telescope
The state land board has put more restrictions on what the University of Hawaii can and can’t do atop Haleakala before a permit issue for a controversial $300 million telescope聽is resolved.
A Native Hawaiian group has contested the permit.
On Tuesday, the Board of Land and Natural Resources put out a 聽[pdf] limiting construction to removal of a certain cite and other unused facilities.聽
reports:
The board added that any construction done before the conclusion of the contested case ‘is done at UHIfA’s sole risk and discretion and … shall not be a basis for a later assertion of vested rights or exclusive privilege.’
Read Civil Beat’s ongoing coverage of the issue:聽
–听Solar Telescope Construction May Begin Despite Permit Challenge
