It’s great to hear Labour candidate Justin Lester launching his campaign with good ol’ fashioned pork barrelling. In fact, you can view a pretty slick campaign video done by his campaign team. Or read his speech for his campaign launch. However, lets peel back below the surface and see what he might bring for usContinueContinue reading “RE-BLOG TRANSPORTING WELLINGTON: What does Justin Lester really stand for?”
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OUR SUBMISSION TO THE WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL’S ANNUAL PLAN
We have submitted the following to the WCC’s Annual Plan – as they were asking for ‘good ideas’ from the community of how to spend our money better. It may be largely lip-service, seeing the Council has gotten a lot of flak recently over their public ‘consultation’ (or lack thereof) processes, but we felt itContinueContinue reading “OUR SUBMISSION TO THE WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL’S ANNUAL PLAN”
REBLOG Keith Johnson: Why can’t WIAL pay for the proposed runway extension?
BBC AND BBBC I was sort of retained as an ‘economist’ by the Guardians of the Bays ginger group that has been formed to contest the Wellington Airport Runway Extension Project – with our tiger-lady organizer Dr Sea Rotmann setting me to tackle the Notorious Business Case that has been recently developed by the consultingContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Keith Johnson: Why can’t WIAL pay for the proposed runway extension?”
SOME REAL FACTS ABOUT THE AIRPORT EXTENSION
This week, we hoped that TV One News would give us the chance to provide some counter to the big bunch of spin all over the Dom Post recently. That was unfortunately not the case. The pilots, airline association and Steven Joyce have now all come out with serious doubts and concerns following the airport’sContinueContinue reading “SOME REAL FACTS ABOUT THE AIRPORT EXTENSION”
MEDIA RELEASE: Runway extension undermined by economic and sea level rise factors
News that Wellington Airport (WIAL) will shortly release a business case on the proposed airport runway extension is to be welcomed as a step to greater transparency. But how much transparency will it actually deliver? The tired mantra of ‘300 metres for $300 million’ has been around for a long time now, while plans haveContinueContinue reading “MEDIA RELEASE: Runway extension undermined by economic and sea level rise factors”
OPINION Dr Sea Rotmann: WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MOA POINTER
After a recent Dom Post article that asserted that the Wellington Airport is ‘gifting’ Moa Point residents $10,000 out of the goodness of their heart, some ugly attacks were made (including in the key letter featured in the Dom Post on October 8). I’d like to set the record straight about what it means toContinueContinue reading “OPINION Dr Sea Rotmann: WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MOA POINTER”
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