Siting of purchase notice typical of airport attitude, say campaigners
Tuesday 22nd February 2011, 11:30AM GMT.
Anti-runway project campaigners, left to right, Martyn Dorey, Tim Archard, Jon Luff and Greg Whiteman by the compulsory purchase order notice on a lighting mast in the middle of a field. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 1097205)
CONCERNED anti-runway project campaigners have made a last-ditch effort to make their views heard ahead of tomorrow’s States debate.
The group claimed islanders had been misled about important facts and there had not been enough transparency surrounding the project – a point that company director Greg Whiteman, 40, said was typified by a compulsory purchase notice stuck on a pole in the middle of the required field rather than at the roadside to be seen by all.
‘It’s just a lack of respect,’ he said.
‘It’s symptomatic of their whole approach to the project – it’s obscured from the people who should be able to express their genuine concerns.’
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Why doesn’t the south protest tomorrow? Sorry forgot, they’re all on their ski trips.
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PS: Which they all went on by plane!
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If there’s a straw you can rely on the black hole deniers to clutch it
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I don’t know how far Radio Guernsey broadcasts reach but anyone who wants a taste of real live Vicar of Dibley parish pump politics should tune in over the next two or three days
The two main items have a range of amendments and delaying tactics facing them.There will be a great deal of argument and time spent on rules of procedure… whose amendment is more far reaching than the other etc
Most annoyingly of all is the fact that there will be hours of valuable debating time wasted through simple mind sapping,sleep inducing REPETITION
I said most annoyingly of all is the fact that there will be hours of valuable debating time wasted through simple mind sapping, sleep inducing REPETITION
Bugger,I’ve just put myself off tuning in at all!
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Oh Lord, is that how desperate they have become? Moaning about a sign being on a poll in the middle of a field?
Anyone who cares will already know about the compulsory purchase and the associated work.
Why don’t you tie a green ribbon to it chaps, that’ll draw attention to it, and judging by the lack of them on cars you’ve no doubt got plenty of spares!
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