Re: Why don't these vested-interest environuts just DIE??

From: Silas (silasb_at_jesusnet.org)
Date: 11/04/04 

Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 00:04:46 -0600

why dont they make the center of Honolulu "sacred" and sue for it
instead? Pikers!

John Kulczycki wrote:

> Sacred Ground and all that.
>
> It's like star party at the local cemetery. Usually they are nice dark
> sites with little lighting so why not use them?
>
> RichA wrote:
>
> >They are simply going to line some lawyers pockets
> >and they'll lose anyway. Is there a red squirrel up
> >the mountain, or are the native groups worried because
> >putting more scopes up there would upset Pele?
> >
> >Keck "outriggers" get conditional OK
> >
> >By 67AM KPUA News
> >
> >(Honolulu-KPUA.net) -- The state Board of Land and Natural Resources
> >yesterday approved the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomys
> >request for six small outrigger telescopes to be built by NASA around
> >the two large Keck Observatory Telescopes. But the land boards
> >approval of the request was conditional upon the Universitys Office
> >of Mauna Kea Management stepping up enforcement of regulations on the
> >mountain.
> >
> >The plan was opposed by a coalition of environmentalists and Native
> >Hawaiian groups, who noted that a Mauna Kea plan from the 1980s put a
> >limit of 13 telescopes atop the mountain.
> >
> >A joint statement from the Sierra Club and Mauna Kea Anaina Hou said
> >that a lawsuit to prohibit building of the scopes would likely be
> >forthcoming.
> >
> >

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