By Sophie Boot March 19 (BusinessDesk) – Wellington International Airport has asked to put its runway extension resource consent application on hold for nine months, as it plans to re-ask the Civil Aviation Authority for permission for its plan. The airport, which is two-thirds owned by NZX-listed infrastructure investment company Infratil and 33 percent by Wellington City Council, isContinueContinue reading “NEWS – Business Desk: Wellington Airport seeks resource consent delay as it re-applies for runway extension”
Tag Archives: Strathmore Park Blog
RE-BLOG STRATHMORE PARK: Wellington Airport Extension – More shocking facts emerge
Posted some weeks back this is the submission by the Guardian’s of the Bay on the so-called Airport Extension, or otherwise known out this way as the White Elephant Project. What is interesting are the take outs from the submission. We’ve summarised them so you don’t have to read the entire thing though we suggestContinueContinue reading “RE-BLOG STRATHMORE PARK: Wellington Airport Extension – More shocking facts emerge”
RE-BLOG Transporting Wellington: Airport runway extension does not stack up. Lester spits the dummy
It is true that the Airport runway extension does not make sense. Therefore it is important that the information gets out to the wider community, rather than just to a bunch of local bloggers. This from Strathmore Park. For years now, Wellington International Airport and it’s pet monkey the WCC have been pushing for an airportContinueContinue reading “RE-BLOG Transporting Wellington: Airport runway extension does not stack up. Lester spits the dummy”
RE-BLOG Strathmore Park: Wellington Airport extension supporters suffering Polyannaism
For years now, Wellington International Airport and it’s pet monkey the Wellington City Council have been pushing for an airport extension. And for years now, it hasn’t stacked up. No small wonder when the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) and the Board of Airlines Representatives of New Zealand (BARNZ) slammed the business caseContinueContinue reading “RE-BLOG Strathmore Park: Wellington Airport extension supporters suffering Polyannaism”
REBLOG Strathmore Park: Knowing better than the locals
by Lindsay Shelton The Wellington Airport campaign to promote a longer runway is similar to the Transport Agency’s campaign about building a flyover at the Basin Reserve. Both commissioned large numbers of experts to support what they wanted to do. Both failed to connect with the communities who would be most affected. The Transport AgencyContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Strathmore Park: Knowing better than the locals”
REBLOG: Strathmore Park: Infratil getting testy over Wellington airport extension questions
Infratil are getting increasingly testy over the questions now being asked by many around the viability of the Wellington Airport Extension and the perception of a corporate handout. In an post on David Farrar’s Kiwiblog, they level their guns at David Lee and Cameron Slater of WhaleOil. In Sense from a Green Councillor, David Farrar questionsContinueContinue reading “REBLOG: Strathmore Park: Infratil getting testy over Wellington airport extension questions”
RE-BLOG Strathmore Park: Swampy Marsh enters the Airport Extension debate and suffers an ironic injury
Simon Marsh launched into David Lee this morning in an Op Ed in the Dominion Post about the airport extension. He accused his colleague of shooting himself in the foot. In a scene that reminded me of Yosemite Sam hunting Porky Pig, Swampy waved his guns around and managed to shoot himself in the foot. AContinueContinue reading “RE-BLOG Strathmore Park: Swampy Marsh enters the Airport Extension debate and suffers an ironic injury”
Monthy Python & the Wellington Runway Extension: Someone should trophy hunt this white elephant
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.ContinueContinue reading “Monthy Python & the Wellington Runway Extension: Someone should trophy hunt this white elephant”
Long Term Plan Optimism Bias, more Propaganda, and another Consultation Shambles
The Council isn’t known for its accuracy with figures. They are a bit of a movable feast, as is time, and other elements. So when the Mayor sent out a press release yesterday on the statistics around the Long Term Plan (LTP) and how awesome it has been, with actual statistics, I thought “doesn’t lookContinueContinue reading “Long Term Plan Optimism Bias, more Propaganda, and another Consultation Shambles”
Keith Johnson: Lavery and Wade-Brown Toggle the Joystick
An excellent blog from Keith Johnson in which holes are found in assumptions around rates rises. I too had much difficulty in finding out what the actual rate rises were going to be. Of the handful of Councillors I polled only one could definitively explain it to me, two were “pretty sure” it was slightlyContinueContinue reading “Keith Johnson: Lavery and Wade-Brown Toggle the Joystick”
Guardians of the Bays 