​Parties in Thirty Meter Telescope case react to Hawaii Supreme Court oral arguments

At an oral argument hearing held Thursday, Hawaii Supreme Court justices questioned the sequence of events that led to a permit being issued for the Thirty Meter Telescope project. Mauna Kea Anaina Hou, Clarence Ching, Flores-Case Ohana, Deborah Ward, Paul Neves, and KAHEA: The Hawaiian Environmental Alliance, are challenging the permit the state Department of Land and Natural Resources issued to TMT to build a 14th observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island. Their lawsuit against the Hawaii…