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Thursday 1 June 2017
Cry — Freight for Manston! England and Saint George!
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.
Michael you say "Cry — Freight for Manston! England and Saint George!" I'm relieved to see that now at last you support RSP's proposals for Manston Airport. For as you know there is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. Good to have you on board, Michael.
ReplyDeleteJohn my support for Manston would be for a regional passenger airport with a strong emphasis on historic aviation focused on the existing museums there. My support for killing local people by ignoring the conclusions of scientific and engineering research related to fuel and aviation that has occurred since the airport closed, suggests an organisation that doesn't understand the basics of transport related engineering. Not something I would want involved in any form of commercial transport.
ReplyDeleteTake pity of your town, and of your people,
Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command;
Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace
O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds
Of deadly murder, spoil, and villainy.
Oh dear
ReplyDeleteStuart Piper is wrong about there being no lower limit for a DCO. The DCO can only proceed if the airport proposal is deemed to be a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP). The definition of this in respect of airports is a minimum of 10,000 movements per year. That's why RSP has used the figure of 10,000 in its outline plans; not because they have a single operator lined up, nor because this figure would make the airport profitable. They are simply quoting the figure they have to quote to have any chance of the DCO succeeding. I didn't like Mr. Piper's response to the question of particulates, either. He said that the council would deal with this if and when aviation starts up again. Well that's far too late to think about the environmental impact. It's all very well riling the mob up by pronouncing that you support a new airport at Manston, but people in positions of authority should by making sure they fully understand the consequences of decisions they might have to make before they make them.
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