Queenstown Lakes Mayor Jim Boult has labelled a move by Christchurch City Council to profit from the district a “predatory activity” designed, he says, to attack the value of Queenstown Airport. Mr Boult calls the decision by Christchurch International Airport Ltd’s (CIAL) majority shareholder to purchase land at Tarras for a proposed airport an “unwelcome intrusion into our district”. That, he says, is “simply unfathomable and morally questionable”. Mr Boult’s comments were … Continue reading Airport bid ‘predatory activity’ [Otago Daily Times, 26/11/20]