Hawaii Governor Says Protests Atop Volcano Are Acts Of Vandalism

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Gov. David Ige says new attempts to retard a highway to a limit of Mauna Kea were wrong and unacceptable.

Hundreds of protesters had flocked to Mauna Kea on Hawaii’s Big Island to forestall construction of a hulk telescope from resuming. A dozen people were arrested and charged with obstructing.

Ige pronounced in a matter Friday that a state will do whatever is required to safeguard that a highway stays accessible. He says when a alley was blocked with rocks and boulders that was an act of vandalism.

The $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope is designed atop a towering that some perspective as sacred.

Ige says a state values a telescope and a contributions to society. He says his administration supports a project’s right to proceed.

University of Hawaii orator Dan Meisenzahl says protesters were streamer adult a towering Friday to mislay mill altars that were placed in a road.

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