article_snippet.sent: Protesters opposing the construction of a $1.4billion telescope on a mountain in Hawaii
article_snippet.sent: Department of Land and Natural Resources officers arrest a Thirty Meter Telescope protester at the telescope building site on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hilo, Hawaii on Thursday .
article_snippet.sent: Thirty Meter Telescope protesters chant after being arrested from the telescope building site on the summit of Mauna Kea .
article_snippet.sent: Protesters are preventing construction of a giant telescope near the summit of a mountain held sacred by Native Hawaiians.
article_snippet.sent: Some consider the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope project as desecrating the Big Island's Mauna Kea (on Monday protesters formed a road block outside the Mauna Kea visitors center) Department of Land and Natural Resources officers lead Thirty Meter Telescope protesters from the telescope building site on the summit of Mauna Kea on Thursday .
article_snippet.sent: Work got underway after protesters were arrested and protesters path was cleared to the summit of Mauna Kea, Sandra Dawson, a spokeswoman for the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope project as desecrating the Big Island's Mauna Kea, said in an email to The Associated Press.
article_snippet.sent: Opponents who question whether land appraisals were done correctly and whether Native Hawaiian groups had been consulted have tried to prevent the construction of Thirty Meter Telescope.
article_snippet.sent: A Department of Land and Natural Resources officer, center left, comforts a Thirty Meter Telescope protester on the summit .
article_snippet.sent: The university sub-leases the land atop Mauna Kea for the telescope project, and the telescope project has always maintained that protesters would have free access to site as long as protesters were not breaking any laws, University of Hawaii spokesman Dan Meisenzahl said.