Hawaii police to stand down from telescope construction site Police are leaving a Hawaii mountain where protesters are blocking construction of a giant telescope because the project isn't moving forward for nowThe Rock visited protesters fighting to keep a telescope off a sacred Hawaiian siteThe Rock visited protesters fighting to keep a telescope off a sacred Hawaiian site The Associated PressHONOLULU -- Hawaii officials are having police leave a mountain where protesters are blocking construction of a giant telescope because the project isn't moving forward for now. Telescope builders informed the state it is not prepared to move forward with construction at this time, according to a memo Thursday from Gov. But that doesn't mean the embattled Thirty Meter Telescope will move to an alternate site in Spain's Canary Islands. “We don’t want to put our workers, the people of Hawaii, and the protesters at risk,” he said. Mauna Kea remains the preferred site, Squires said.

Source: ABC News December 19, 2019 20:49 UTC