La Palma Will Not Host the Thirty Meter Telescope
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The international consortium has ruled out the island despite a commitment to mobilise up to EUR 1 billion by the Government of Spain and the European Investment Bank
The Canary Island of La Palma has said goodbye to the project of the Thirty Meters Telescope (TMT). The Government of Spain and the European Investment Bank were willing to mobilise up to 1 billion euros if the international consortium chose the Roque de los Muchachos, in La Palma, as headquarters. Specifically, they were going to be 400 million euros from the Ministry of Science together with a loan of 600 million euros that would come out of t…
The Government had committed 1 billion euros to attract this gigantic scientific infrastructure to Spain
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will not reach La Palma. After ten years of straps and slacks, the opportunity to house the astronomical giant has been totally diluted in the face of the refusal of the promoters to change their plans to build in Hawaii. Neither the facilities for its construction on Bonita Island, nor the succulent economic offer of Spain and Europe, have been enough to change the initial idea of the Consortium – formed by the …
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