In August last year, the Wellington City Council declared a climate emergency, and released a blueprint outlining intentions and objectives to make the city carbon neutral by 2050. With a 30 year horizon, it was hard to get past the irony of the program name “Te Atakura, First to Zero.” Hopefully, by then, Wellington willContinueContinue reading “RE-BLOG: Last to Zero?”
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Keeping the Council and the Airport honest, or will Tangaroa have the last word anyway?
Over the last couple of months two important developments occurred regarding the proposed Wellington Airport Runway Extension: Its $90m co-funding by Council found its way into the LTP – despite significant opposition against it, but with some very important caveats Nature has shown us on several occasions just how insane the proposal is to putContinueContinue reading “Keeping the Council and the Airport honest, or will Tangaroa have the last word anyway?”
The Airport Extension, how much is it really going to cost?
How can we sign off to pay for half if we don’t know how much it will really cost? Open Blog by Guardians of the Bays In light of the looming Long Term Plan submissions due today Friday, April 17, our citizens group the Guardians of the Bays have kept delving deeper into the variousContinueContinue reading “The Airport Extension, how much is it really going to cost?”
Introducing the Guardians of the Bays
We are the Guardians of the Bays, a group of concerned Wellington residents. We formed this group in 2013 to counteract the seemingly gung-ho approach of the Wellington City Council (WCC) and the Wellington International Airport Limited (WIAL) regarding the long-touted extension of the airport runway – either to the North into Evens Bay, or,ContinueContinue reading “Introducing the Guardians of the Bays”
Guardians of the Bays 