HONOLULU – On Thursday, the Hawaii Supreme Court grilled state and university attorneys on whether or not the land board erred in 2012 when it approved the conservation district use permit for the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea prior to holding a contested case hearing.

The video above was edited down from 2 hours of media pool footage, and features the due process argument of attorney Richard Naiwieha Wurdeman (representing appellants Mauna Kea Anaina Hou, Clarence Kukauakahi Ching, Flores-Case `Ohana, Deborah J. Ward, Paul K. Neves, and KAHEA: the Hawaiian Environmental Alliance, a domestic non-profit corporation) as well as the oral arguments of Jay S. Handlin, attorney for UH at Hilo, and Deputy Attorneys General Julie H. China, attorney for the BLNR.

We will be presenting another video edit on the matter of the eight criteria for a conservation district and questions over the assessment of the impact of TMT’s proposed land use on the cultural, historical and natural resources on the summit of the mountain.