Josh Green said in a statement: “I appreciate the Attorney General’s decision to dismiss the charges against our kūpuna who peacefully protested at Mauna Kea three years ago.
The protests led to Hawai’iʻs State Legislature forming the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority, a new governing body for the mountain. “So we have made a decision that we will be withdrawing our personnel so that they can enjoy the holidays with everyone else.” The protesters said they were “protectors” of sacred Mauna Kea in 2019.
“We have been informed that the Thirty Meter Telescope will not be proceeding with construction at this time,” Ige said in a press conference that began a little after 11 a.m. They opposed the $1.4 billion project that they said would desecrate sacred land on 13,803-foot Mauna Kea, Hawai’i’s tallest peak. Thirty-eight people, mostly Native Hawaiians, were arrested for blocking the road and preventing construction vehicles from driving up the mountain. Inouye Highway (formerly known as Saddle Road) and the Mauna Kea Access Road. On July 17, 2019, day 3 of the protests and the day of the arrests, an estimated 1,000 people were at the intersection of the Daniel K. New Hawai’i State Attorney General Anne Lopez said in a statement: “After extensive litigation in the original prosecution, dismissal of the cases in 2022, and careful consideration of the benefits of re-prosecution to the State of Hawaiʻi, I have decided that the continued pursuit of these cases is not in the best interests of the people of the State of Hawaiʻi.” Kūpuna and others protest the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea in 2019. The State of Hawai’i announced on Tuesday it will not refile charges against more than two dozen kūpuna who were charged with obstructing the Mauna Kea Access Road in 2019 during a protest of the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on sacred land to Native Hawaiians.
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