Marine Education Centre related newsitems

• • Update on save the point / the true cost to the ratepayers

    • 28 Sep 2007
    • Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
    • I'm picking this has cost the ratepayers over 1.5 million dollars so far. This does not include the $7 million non-recourse loan towards building MEC. Opponents have had to meet legal and experts' costs of over $200,000 plus time of the core of volunteers and expert witnesses who gave their time, etc gratis.
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• • All at sea

    • 25 Sep 2007
    • WellUrban
    • I'm disappointed by the outcome of the Environment Court decision that rejected the Marine Education Centre at Te Raekaihau Point. I've never been a hard-core supporter of the project, but I was convinced that for the particular vision the proponents had in mind, there was no better site.
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    Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Save the point has won in the environment court

    • 21 Sep 2007
    • Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
    • In 2000 I began one of my longest political battles . Yesterday it finished in the Environment Court with a ruling that the South Coast is not an appropriate place for an Aquarium. In that time I was supported only by Cr David Zwartz. In 2004 I was joined by Cr Jack Ruben in my opposition. This proposal divided the community. While the political battle was raging and we were overwhelmed by a developer friendly Council, Save Te Rae Kai Hau Point was formed. It was this group that in the end won the day.
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    Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Te Rae Kai Hau Point - Keep It Natural!

    • 8 May 2007
    • Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
    • This is my seventh year in the battle to Save Te Rae Kai Hau Point. As seven is a special number I see this as a positive year to do things. It has been seven years where many people have played a part in opposing the shameful proposed Marine Education Centre ( Fish Zoo and Cafe) on this wonderful piece of natural heritage.
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• • Save Te Rae Kai Hau Point 2007

    • 10 Mar 2007
    • Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
    • The $22 m cost of this project(the fish zoo) continues to escalate due to its proposed location at Te Rae Kai Hau Point and the need to protect the building from the relentless force of the sea. Not only will ratepayers be press-ganged into paying the inevitable shortfalls and ongoing costs, we will lose our precious natural heritage to so called environmentalists.
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• • Save Te Raekaihau Point

    • 13 Aug 2006
    • Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
    • Come and help the Save the Point Group raise funds for their legal battle against the destruction of an iconic headland on our South Coast by joining them for a glass of wine and the chance to view the movie from the Wellington Film Festival everyone is talking about, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH.
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