Invercargill and Dunedin have been closed by floods once a decade or so.
Graeme 1.1.1
Large parts of Dunedin are below mean sea level, some around a metre. Invercargill is just above, but close enough that a flood combined with a high tide makes things pretty wet. Both suffer from being built on very weak ground, especially Invercargill, so both are never going to be more than they are now and unlikely to get much future investment.
It s not only airports that are at risk from sea level rise. The State Highway and railway going past Dunedin Airport are only slightly higher and just as at risk in many other places.
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:06 am, January 23rd, 2021 - 38 comments
When the government proposed declaring a climate emergency in December last year, Jacinda Ardern said this,
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The revelation came in confidential documents released as part of the 1990 State Archives. One document revealed Taoiseach Charles Haughey had directed senior civil servant Dermot Nally to ask the British Ambassador Nicholas Fenn to call to see him on September 20, 1990, over alarm in Dublin at remarks made by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
The Government felt the prime minister’s remarks somehow hinted there was Irish responsibility for what had happened.
Mrs Thatcher had launched a scathing reproach on the “evil” attacks by the IRA on her friend Ian Gow MP as well as retired Air Chief Marshal and former Gibraltar Governor Peter Terry.
Haughey rebuked British ambassador after Thatcher questioned Ireland’s will to defeat IRA
An Irish official relayed that ambassador Sir Nicholas Fenn explained Thatcher had been speaking with a “certain sense of exasperation”. By Press Association Sunday 27 Dec 2020, 5:02 PM Dec 27th 2020, 5:02 PM 35,576 Views 32 Comments
Charles Haughey and Margaret Thatcher in April 1990.
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THE UK’S AMBASSADOR in Ireland received a governmental rebuke after then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher questioned the state’s commitment to defeating the IRA.
National archive papers revealed Taoiseach Charles Haughey ordered a senior official to make clear to the ambassador his displeasure at Thatcher’s remarks.