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A plan to turn Wanaka’s “community” airport into a busy jet operation has been made into an animated video to show the potential impacts of the proposed development. The Wanaka Stakeholders...
The Wānaka airport issue once again rears its head, this time in a governmental report investigating environmental degradation caused by tourism. The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, recently released...
If you are on Facebook today, chances are the new campaign animation video produced by Wānaka Stakeholders Group (WSG) will pop up on your feed. WSG has worked with a talented...
Last Monday the Wānaka Stakeholders Group (WSG) successfully obtained orders from a High Court judge to have their case heard as expeditiously as possible. In practical terms that means that there...
An Otago entrepreneur has thrown his support behind the group opposed to the potential expansion of Wanaka Airport, so people are aware of what it is “they are arguing about”. Ian...
On Monday, one of our barristers obtained orders from the High Court – the first key steps in relation to the judicial review we have lodged. We had to wait for...
This afternoon, we wrote to Mayor Boult and all QLDC Councillors, copying Community Board members, ensuring that they understand that Simon Upton’s report on the impact of tourism, released earlier this...
Here’s the link to the full, 184 page report on the environmental consequences of projected tourism growth, authored by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton. Click the image below...
A major report from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment warns tourism – both domestic and international – is putting the country under major pressure and eroding the very attributes that make...
The public will get to hear this week or early next week exactly what Wellington consultants MartinJenkins have been instructed to study in respect of air traffic to the Lakes district....