Nimbys achieve their aims

Helen Clark and other NIMBY’s in the Eden Park area achieve their aim of forcing cancellation of a charity concert at Eden Park

RNZ

The Eden Park Trust has withdrawn its application to hold a fundraising concert for Sir Ray Avery’s baby ‘lifepod’ incubators. Sir Ray Avery, who proposed the event to raise money for his incubator project says he is “gutted” the Eden Park Trust has withdrawn their application to hold the event. The stadium says time constraints and the prospect of substantial Environment Court costs have forced the decision. Katie Scotcher reports.

Frankly this whole thing stinks. Kiwiblog noted the other day that the great majority of local residents were in favour of the concert.

Intriguingly for an issue such as this, potentially impacting many, Morning Report ran only a brief segment today, whilst the issue of access to the Hunter Valley received much more coverage from RNZ. Why?

On Newsroom there was another negative piece, giving liberal coverage to the anti-concert faction In fact the piece was very unbalanced.

Then another negative piece on the failure to deliver Life Pods, again at Newsroom . Interestingly, none of the concerns which seem to have some justification as regards delivery of the machines, surfaced prior to the anti-faction agitating about Eden Park. There have been other pieces in other media outlets.

Tonight, on ONE News, Ray Avery fronted and said there had been some delays, but things were now on track. However, Adam would suggest that many projects involving new inventions often experience delays.

A conspiracy theorist might argue that Ray Avery was, for some reason, the object of an orchestrated attack.