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A proposed airport in Central Otago was the target of an Extinction Rebellion protest at the Christchurch City Council. (Video first published in December 2020) Cr Sam MacDonald, who was chairing the meeting, noted the vote was not about deciding whether the airport would be built, but setting a strategic direction. “I think if we were to go down this path of being very specific, very deliberate, we could be at risk of being called The Kremlin, he said, later saying it was an allusion to a situation “where we dictated everything”. “We’re not making a decision today on Tarras, and it’s unfortunate that the debate has become about that.”
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Christchurch City Council owns a 75 per cent stake in the airport via Christchurch City Holdings Ltd (CCHL), a company created to be a non-political buffer between the council and its businesses. Hayward described the decision to spend public money without a public rationale or business plan as “extraordinary”, and called for the council to be accountable by debating the project publicly. “For a healthy democracy sunlight is always the best medicine.”
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A jet-capable airport is proposed for the Tarras farmland on the other side of the Clutha River. Hayward was also concerned about the council using CCHL as an “arms’ length trading body investing in research and development in a way that was not transparent”, likening it to a “common land-bank”.
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