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Mount Ekea - The TMT 30 Meter Telescope
Mount Ekea was selected as the primary site for what was going to be this next generation telescope, right? So 10 times as much light gathering power as the Subaru and 10 times more resolution than the Hubble. Later on in that process we began to see some pushback from environmentalists and also the Native Hawaiian community. This is sort of just another attempt to build scientific infrastructure without building consensus with indigenous community members.