Guardians of the Bays / August 2015
Guardians of the Bays is a broad-based residents’ group opposed to the proposal to extend the runway at Wellington International Airport (WIAL). We do not believe that the extension will achieve the level of benefits needed to warrant the extensive investment required. We do believe that the social, cultural and environmental costs the extension would impose on Wellington residents and the South Coast and its users are too high.
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- runway-extension
- airport
- transport
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All the reports from the airport so far
- Guardians of the Bays
- We dug up the second arrangement between the Council and the airport, where the Council agreed to fund the airport with an extra $1.
- Accepted from Guardians of the Bays posts
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Keeping the Airport honest is as hard as catching tadpoles with your bare hands
- Guardians of the Bays
- We need to state upfront that we do appreciate that the Wellington International Airport Limited (WIAL) is a corporation, one run by its majority shareholder Infratil, and as such has specific mandates to fulfil for its shareholders.
- Accepted from Guardians of the Bays posts
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Stan Andis: Wellington Airport Comes to Town
- Guardians of the Bays
- It was only a matter of hours prior to my being informed that a presentation by Wellington Airport was to take place before a Council meeting on Tuesday 4th August, 2015.
- Accepted from Guardians of the Bays posts
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A 1988 clip on safety issues at Wellington airport
- Guardians of the Bays
- A rather quaint old clip talking about the serious safety concerns at Wellington airport. Note, a very young Helene Ritchie saying that ‘the extension option is the least likely’.
- Accepted from Guardians of the Bays posts
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VIDEO: A collection of scary Wellington landings and take-offs
- Guardians of the Bays
- Watching these clips (and looking at the planes coming in during a screaming Southerly or Nor’westerly from my veranda) does really make you question the sanity of the planners who thought this was an ideal location for a runway…
- Accepted from Guardians of the Bays posts
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Monthy Python & the Wellington Runway Extension: Someone should trophy hunt this white elephant
- Guardians of the Bays
- The bumbling shambles that is the Wellington International Airport and Wellington City Council’s pipe dream for an airport expansion rolls on with more misinformation and lack of co-ordination by the various parties no doubt costing us millions of dollars with absolutely nothing to show for it but a report that says we shouldn’t go there.
- Accepted from Guardians of the Bays posts
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All LTP submissions about the airport (pro and con)
- Guardians of the Bays
- We have gone through the trouble of looking at all 1049 formal LTP submissions.
- Accepted
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WCC Long Term Plan Guardians of the Bays submission
- Guardians of the Bays
- This was our submission, which went into some depth as to the economic folly that this runway extension in its current form posed, as well as the issues related to the consultation process. GOTB LTP Submission FINAL
- Accepted
- Tagged as:
- runway-extension
- consultation
- wellington-city-council
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