Panama City Airport on hold

[pmd8]

Isn't the whole state of Florida a wet land, what difference does this 2 thousand acres mean, other than there is always someone against everything?

The main difference is that St. Joe is getting preferential treatment in obtaining blanket approval for multiple areas of wetlands.

Fair's fair, why shouldn't they have to get individual permitting just like everyone else?

If 56% of the citizens voted against the new airport why can't their wishes be followed? Whether it's a good or bad thing for development, in a democracy the majority should be heard.

 

[SHELLY]

If 56% of the citizens voted against the new airport why can't their wishes be followed? Whether it's a good or bad thing for development, in a democracy the majority should be heard.

You mean the votes we cast in Florida are supposed to count for something???


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[wrobert]

If 56% of the citizens voted against the new airport why can't their wishes be followed? Whether it's a good or bad thing for development, in a democracy the majority should be heard.

This country is not a democracy.

 

[Bob]

56 percent of those who voted don't know who the Lt. Governor is, or who represents them in D.C.

 

[beachmouse]

Isn't the whole state of Florida a wet land, what difference does this 2 thousand acres mean, other than there is always someone against everything?

Not all wetlands are the same, and there are species in the Panhandle that exist nowhere else in the world (some types of fish and beach mice) and others that are on the endangered species list because they don't have much habitat left elsewhere.

It's one of those cases where due dilligence is a good thing, as it would be a shame to get conclusive DNA evidence that the ivory-billed woodpecker didn't go extinct in the 1940s because it turned up as a bird strike on a landing regional jet at the new airport.

 

[Will B]

What about flights to Selma?

As in Alabama? I wouldn't bet on it with Montgomery being only 40 miles away.

 

[NotDeadYet]

Isn't the whole state of Florida a wet land, what difference does this 2 thousand acres mean, other than there is always someone against everything?

No, the whole state is not a wetland. There are plenty of uplands. Wetlands provide a whole lot of valuable functions. They protect the uplands from flooding, they clean the water that eventually ends up in the aquifer that we then drink, they clean the water that flows into the bays and rivers, they provide places for small fish to hang out until they become big fish that we then catch and eat, and so on. You ought to take a basic biology course somewhere, really. Your question is astonishingly uninformed.

 

[00seer00]

Isn't the whole state of Florida a wet land, what difference does this 2 thousand acres mean, other than there is always someone against everything?

Merry Christmas to all !!!! Yes we destroy millions of acres of wetlands to build roads across this great Country of ours and it?s done every day. This is done to serve the people and allows for commerce to take place. This Airport has been in planning for 10 years, nothing is perfect and to stop this Airport because of 2000 acres of wetland would be a disservice to our Country. One of the reasons Oil is at $100 a barrel is because of the same type of unnecessary delay of new refineries in our country and new inshore drilling areas. This whole State was under water at one time and when Hurricanes hit shore 100?s of thousands of acres of wetlands are, disruptive, redirected and destroyed. Yes we have no control over this but should we take satellite images of the damage area and return it back to the way they were? Do we take a sample of every living creature found in every swamp, waterway, or wetland, and spend Billions of taxpayers dollars protecting them, stop commerce, damage our economy for a snail, bug, fish, or bird, especially one that may not be there. There has to be a balance. I lean to the side of what?s better for our Country.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year
00seer00

 

[Buckhead Rick]

From what the impact reports have said about the Airport there are NO endanged species located on that micro spot of land that will become an airport other than the "close the door behind me" folks who now live in the area and want to make in harder for others to enjoy what they have found.

 

[NotDeadYet]