PUKALANI – For nearly a decade, the “line in the lava” – as Kahu Charles Kauluwehi Maxwell Sr. put it
recently – has been clearly delineated over the National Science Foundation’s proposed 143-foot-tall solar telescope near the summit of Haleakala.

Native cultural preservationists and Haleakala purists oppose the $161 million Advanced Technology Solar Telescope as sacrilegious, unnecessary and flat-out insensitive and ugly. Finish Reading: ‘House of the Sun’ getting crowded

Maui News May 21, 2009

Emerson Earl considers small roadside shrines “trash” (Letters, April 14) but declaims that a 20 story concrete eyesore on top of Haleakala is “appropriate” (Letters, May 17). He goes on to spout a lot of grandiose but meaningless words about the proposed telescope.

I don’t have a strong opinion on the telescope. But then, I am not Hawaiian. I listen to Hawaiian friends and relatives when they tell me that this is a desecration and culturally inappropriate. Only a very ungracious guest of Maui would ignore their words and trample our hosts’ sacred place. Finish Reading: Haleakala Solar Telescope Desecration

For information on the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement:
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2009/May/Day-08/i10561.htm

Samples of Testimony Submitted:

National Park Service — The introduction is a must read!

On behalf of Kilakila O Haleakala

Dick Mayer

Sierra Club

Kiope Raymond Maui News Viewpoint

UH Environmental Center Review

Kahea SEIS Comments

Kahea DEIS Comments