The union for deputy sheriffs stationed at Mauna Kea as the TMT protest drags on have filed a grievance claiming the law enforcement officers are being underpaid. The grievance is the second in as many weeks. About 50 deputy sheriffs have been assigned multi-day, extended shifts ― with fewer days off in between. The union says the Department of Public Safety has been computing the overtime incorrectly ― and not paying them what they are due...
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Opposition to the Thirty Meter Telescope may be at the forefront of Mauna Kea protests, but some native Hawaiian practitioners are questioning the cumulative effects of development on the mountain. Is the construction of 13 telescopes on the summit an appropriate use of conservation lands? The state Land Use Commission takes up that issue beginning today at its hearing in Hilo. Hawaiian cultural practitioners Kuʻulei Higashi Kanahele and her husband ʻAhiʻena Kanahele are challenging what they say are “industrial” uses on Mauna Kea’s conservation lands for astronomy-related development...
Opponents of the petition argue these issues were thoroughly vetted by the Board of Land and Natural Resources through its conservation district use permit process and later by the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court in the TMT case. The court affirmed last year that the state had properly issued a construction permit for the project, clearing the way for building of the $1.4 billion telescope.
Building of TMT has been blocked for the past three and a half months by protesters who believe Mauna Kea is sacred...
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