LETTER: Airport intensifies environmental disaster
Victoria Airport is receiving $ 3 million in federal funding, in response to a headline in a latest subject of your newspaper. Geoff Dickson, CEO of Victoria Airport Authority, mentioned: “The VAA will restore misplaced air visitors, appeal to new air providers and enhance passenger demand …”
In the identical subject you printed an editorial wherein you described international warming as “the best disaster on this planet in trendy instances”.
We all know very properly that emissions from air journey are one of many largest contributors to international warming. In actual fact, environmentalists who journey by air are ridiculed for his or her inconsistent ideology.
Should not the AAD actively attempt to scale back air visitors? What am i lacking How can this unelected VAA act so environmentally dangerous in one other summer time with raging forest fires, drought and “warmth domes”?
The VAA acts constantly in opposition to frequent sense. They proceed to behave independently of the group they serve. It appears hopelessly caught within the previous approach of doing enterprise the place all progress is sweet. Within the trendy world, marked by the results of local weather change, we’ve got to do issues very in a different way, as highlighted in your editorial.
I suggest that an essential step is to reform the entire airport authority mannequin and replace the best way we conduct aviation affairs. Within the meantime, we have to curtail the actions of the present CEO and the board of administrators.
Bert Slater
North Saanich
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