Opponents of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope to be built atop Mauna Kea filed a last-minute notice of appeal Monday afternoon with Opponents file last-minute notice against TMT.

Opponents file last-minute notice against TMT, the spokeswoman for a group of six petitioners who have contested the plans for what has been touted to be the world’s largest optical telescope, said Monday evening that the hui needed the full 30-day period available to them to decide whether to proceed with an appeal.

Last month, their efforts to stop the construction project took a major blow when the state Board of Land and Natural Resources approved a land use permit for the project, following a lengthy contested case hearing.

“Today is the deadline for us to file the notice of appeal,” she said. “We had to really use all of our time to really make sure everything was OK. There’s a lot of different people involved, and because there’s various groups, each group has its own internal process of decision making.”

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