On March 9, 2020, Durham Region published this web post. The post, about a Pickering airport, is seriously misleading, announcing conclusions that KPMG did not reach and featuring claims that the report did not contain. More than a full pandemic year after the appearance of this post, the inaccuracies are still there and have become increasingly […]
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What’s black and white and read all over? A letter to your MP!
49 years into the #NoPickeringAirport movement, the single most important thing you can do is write a letter to your MP. It doesn’t need to be complicated or long, it simply needs to be sent…from you!
49 YEARS ON, DOC GODFREY & PEOPLE OR PLANES ARE STILL RIGHT
As we enter the 50th year of #NoPickeringAirport, never have we owed such a debt of gratitude to People or Planes as we have during this pandemic – the year when the skies went silent, airports sat empty, and some foods suddenly became scarce or unavailable. On March 2, 1972, the men and women of […]
Looking Back on the Back Forty
On New Year’s Eve and #ThrowbackThursday, as we all look forward to an escape from 2020 and lean into the possibility of a please-god-let-it-be-better 2021, our Chair looks back on 40 years on the Federal Lands. Digging through old files she came across the article below, written when she was a young regional reporter and […]
Sign the NEW petition!
A passionate new Land Over Landings supporter has launched a petition asking Ottawa to finally end any plans to build an airport on the prime — and increasingly precious — farmland of North Pickering. In case you thought this was settled long ago, and that no one would be crazy enough to suggest a new […]
INDOOR FARMING AND NORTH PICKERING
Local politicians have for years extolled indoor farms as desirable elements of a future airport on the Federal Lands, no doubt banking on the idea that by incorporating such facilities into the project, they would silence objections to the destruction of prime farmland. The paper reveals how misguided such thinking is. “Indoor Farming and North […]
KPMG FINDS NO AIRPORT NEEDED
Back in 2016, Transport Canada tasked KPMG with analysing the airport system of southern Ontario to the year 2036. An up-to-date study was said to be needed to decide when airport capacity constraints would necessitate a Pickering airport. KPMG’s findings were submitted in sections, over 3 years. The full report was released without fanfare by Transport Canada on March 5, 2020. We broke it down.
PICKERING COUNCILLOR URGES CITY TO FORGET AIRPORT, FOCUS ON RAIL
Even in these strange times, winter slowly, inexorably drips into spring on the Federal Lands. So, too, grinds on the business of government as any possibility of an airport – or aerotropolis – on the Lands fades away to nothing.
BREAKING! NO BUSINESS CASE TO SUPPORT AIRPORT ON THE PICKERING FEDERAL LANDS — KPMG study.
Transport Canada’s KPMG report about the future needs of the southern Ontario airport system was released on March 5, 2020. After a three-year-long study, the KPMG consultants concluded that there’s no need for the immediate development of an airport on the Pickering Federal Lands: “Although all four scenarios identify minor capacity deficits, these can be overcome with modest expansions in aircraft apron and air terminal facilities at the airports in the southern Ontario airport system. Therefore, a new airport is not expected to be required in southern Ontario prior to 2036 to meet the forecast demand.”
Durham Climate Change Emergency Declaration Passes!
Durham Regional Council has voted to support a Climate Change Emergency Declaration. Here’s our delegation to Regional Council and our accompanying visual presentation where we highlight the outrageous hypocrisy of paving over prime farmland for Toronto East Aerotropolis. Read more below.