Mauna a Wākea Part 4 of 4

Hānau ka Mauna a Kea

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Mahalo to
Pono Kealoha for videoing with
Uncle Hank for the 2 days
Kerri Peterson Marks of Occupy Hawaiʻi
Big Island video News
Santa Cruz Indigenous Network
Laulani Teale
Kailana Kahawaluokalani Kepelino Moa-Eli,
Ben Manuel
Kahea the Hawaiian Environmental Alliance
Starr kalahiki
Kuʻuipo Freitas

Mahalo Nui Loa to everyone

videos videoed and edited by
Oren Tsutsumi,
Kerri Peterson Marks,
Pono Kealoha,
Starr kalahiki and
Kuʻuipo Freitas

further tv Editin by
Oren Tsutsumi

pics from Laulani Teal,
Santa Cruz Indigenous Network,
Kailana Kahawaluokalani Kepelino Moa-Eli
Starr kalahiki
Kuʻuipo Freitas and
Kahea the Hawaiian Environmental Alliance

Full versions of videos on
youtube under uploads at:
apecepic ( part 1 2 3 4 )
ponosize
Occupy Hawaiʻi
Big Island Video News

Starr kalahiki and
Kuʻuipo Freitas on facebook

Video: Sacred Mountain by Pua Case
Mauna Kea—Temple Under Siege film
Sacred Land Film Project—Mauna Kea

hash:

#‎WeAreMaunaKea‬
#alohaaina
#aoletmt
#deoccupyhawaii
#hawaiiankingdom
#idlenomore
#kukiaimauna
#maunakea
#protectmaunakea
#protectorsnotprotesters
#thirtymetertelescope
#tmt
#tmtshutdown
#tmtshutdownhq
#wearemaunakea
#worldwidesignwaving

TMT fact sheet at:

A completed structural footprint of the TMT would be larger than
the footprint of the:

Eiffel Tower,

5 acres,

3 football fields

or 217,800 square feet.

The telescope itself would take up 34,304 square feet.

The support and office building would cover 21,000 square feet.

It would add 3,400 ft of new road.

The construction footprint of the project would disturb over 8 acres.

it would excavate 64,000 cubic yards of summit area.

The construction is proposed for the northern plateau, some of the last undeveloped area on the summit. The structure would interrupt viewplane to Haleakalā It would be visible from 14% of the island, including Waimea Park, Pu‪ʻ‬‬u Kapu & Wa‪ʻ‬awa‪ʻ‬a, Honoka‪ʻ‬a, & Pu‪ʻ‬ukohalā

Current telescopes are visible from 43% of the island.

Telescope operations would create 74 dbA of noise.

Would produce 120-250 cubic feet of solid waste a week.

Would use 5,000 gallon underground tank to store hazardous chemicals

Road would require additional construction on Puʻu Kūkahauʻula.

The University Board of Regents and the developers of this project have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars propaganda, assuring us that TMT will have little impact on the summit .

Even what some call the illegal occupational government's and what others call the usurpative presense's law, doesn't allow for the TMT to built. Hawaii Administrative Rules section 13-5 (page 5-21) outlines again eight criteria that must be met before the Board can allow construction in a conservation district, like Mauna Kea.

The most obvious:

4. The proposed land use will not cause substantial adverse impact to existing natural resources within the surrounding area, community, or region;

5. The proposed land use, including buildings, structures and facilities, shall be compatible with the locality and surrounding areas, appropriate to the physical conditions and capabilities of the specific parcel or parcels;

6. The existing physical and environmental aspects of the land, such as natural beauty and open space characteristics, will be preserved or improved upon, whichever is applicable;

The TMT can't satisfy these criteria. It would multiply industrial land use on Mauna Kea, forever altering the natural beauty and sacred vista of the northern plateau. Construction will impact
fragile habitats of native plants and animals found only on Mauna Kea, with no guarantee of restoration when the lease term ends, in a mere 22 years.

The mountain, and the people, have already suffered forty years of unjust, unlawful industrial development. Mauna Kea is conservation lands, public trust lands, and "ceded" crown lands. Mauna Kea is wahi pana, wao akua, dwelling of Wākea, home of Poli‪ʻ‬ahu, and beloved of Līlīnoe.