Oh dear. Oh deary me.
Our coiffured captain of complacency, do nothing Darren, should, perhaps reflect that the large pachyderm sitting in his office is not a figment of his imagination. The odd aroma that permeates his office comes from pachyderm poop piling up.
Check your shoes Darren, your treading it into the carpet.
There are rumours doing the rounds that the Bankstown airport lawyer fest in the NSW courts has been settled, allegedly the Commonwealth has taken over the airport.
Allegedly the "lawyer fight at BK corral" came about because the Development shark was a tad miffed his plans for a shopping centre Nirvana on the asbestos contaminated illegally filled flood plain on the Southwestern third of the airport became a little too dodgey to develop, even for him, so he sued for breach of contract.
This drew a stampede of lawyers from under rocks and bottoms of ponds and before you could blink, a bunch of stakeholders , (the non aviation ones) were gathering at the corral, armed with 45 caliber QC's ready for a 60 million dollar fight. Just those with money; the now poor old aviation ones have long since been fleeced by the lessor.
The legal eagles are mortified their new Mercedes slipped away, the crafty shark was pulling a bluff.
Turns out he realized discretion was the better part of valor so he went after "Go Away" money and it worked. Pretty easy way to make a buck and you have to admire his balls.
Reflection after the event poses some questions.
It is alleged there was considerable contact between a certain Murky Mandarin and the receiver and liquidator for the insolvent sub-lease holder of the South Western third of the airport. One wonders, is it Kosher that a senior bureaucrat was in correspondence with involved parties in essentially a business event? Puppet Master perhaps?
The South-western flood pain was filled with contaminated fill over the top of PFOS and PFOA firefighting foam contaminates, live ammunition, human excrement an bunker oil from the second world war; without an EPA approval. Will this now have to be removed?
If it does, will runway 18-36 closed contrary to the head lease for the airport be restored?
Will the poor sod manager from ASA, who knocked back the development sharks demand to move Bankstown NDB, at ASA's expense, saving him 20 million odd for access to Milperra road and lost his job for it be re-instated?
Is it the "Commonwealth" or the "Commonwealth Bank" who now controls the Airport? If its the Bank, when will the Commonwealth invoke its obligation to cancel the head lease and resume control of the airport?
BAL are crowing they now control the whole airport. Well sorry guys, under the terms of the head lease you always did, would have been nice though if you had legitimised it by paying NSW stamp duty like everyone else has to.
Does the new "Master Plan" you allude to involve the Northern Third of the Airport along Marion Street?
If so will the proceeds be used to remove the contaminated fill from the flood plain or disappear offshore?
If you are taking another third of the airport, having stuffed up with the first third, will the actual aviation stakeholders be compensated for the destruction of their businesses?
What is YOUR master plan when your carve up finally makes the airport untenable as an airport?
All these questions Darren. Getting to be royal commission stuff, and that's just Bankstown, all the other capital city secondary airports, same, same.
The whole so called airport privatization was supposed to benefit aviation and the public of Australia, not big banks and development sharks.
The big questions, has corruption occurred? Can the Murky Mandarin keep a lid on it?
Time will tell.
Our coiffured captain of complacency, do nothing Darren, should, perhaps reflect that the large pachyderm sitting in his office is not a figment of his imagination. The odd aroma that permeates his office comes from pachyderm poop piling up.
Check your shoes Darren, your treading it into the carpet.
There are rumours doing the rounds that the Bankstown airport lawyer fest in the NSW courts has been settled, allegedly the Commonwealth has taken over the airport.
Allegedly the "lawyer fight at BK corral" came about because the Development shark was a tad miffed his plans for a shopping centre Nirvana on the asbestos contaminated illegally filled flood plain on the Southwestern third of the airport became a little too dodgey to develop, even for him, so he sued for breach of contract.
This drew a stampede of lawyers from under rocks and bottoms of ponds and before you could blink, a bunch of stakeholders , (the non aviation ones) were gathering at the corral, armed with 45 caliber QC's ready for a 60 million dollar fight. Just those with money; the now poor old aviation ones have long since been fleeced by the lessor.
The legal eagles are mortified their new Mercedes slipped away, the crafty shark was pulling a bluff.
Turns out he realized discretion was the better part of valor so he went after "Go Away" money and it worked. Pretty easy way to make a buck and you have to admire his balls.
Reflection after the event poses some questions.
It is alleged there was considerable contact between a certain Murky Mandarin and the receiver and liquidator for the insolvent sub-lease holder of the South Western third of the airport. One wonders, is it Kosher that a senior bureaucrat was in correspondence with involved parties in essentially a business event? Puppet Master perhaps?
The South-western flood pain was filled with contaminated fill over the top of PFOS and PFOA firefighting foam contaminates, live ammunition, human excrement an bunker oil from the second world war; without an EPA approval. Will this now have to be removed?
If it does, will runway 18-36 closed contrary to the head lease for the airport be restored?
Will the poor sod manager from ASA, who knocked back the development sharks demand to move Bankstown NDB, at ASA's expense, saving him 20 million odd for access to Milperra road and lost his job for it be re-instated?
Is it the "Commonwealth" or the "Commonwealth Bank" who now controls the Airport? If its the Bank, when will the Commonwealth invoke its obligation to cancel the head lease and resume control of the airport?
BAL are crowing they now control the whole airport. Well sorry guys, under the terms of the head lease you always did, would have been nice though if you had legitimised it by paying NSW stamp duty like everyone else has to.
Does the new "Master Plan" you allude to involve the Northern Third of the Airport along Marion Street?
If so will the proceeds be used to remove the contaminated fill from the flood plain or disappear offshore?
If you are taking another third of the airport, having stuffed up with the first third, will the actual aviation stakeholders be compensated for the destruction of their businesses?
What is YOUR master plan when your carve up finally makes the airport untenable as an airport?
All these questions Darren. Getting to be royal commission stuff, and that's just Bankstown, all the other capital city secondary airports, same, same.
The whole so called airport privatization was supposed to benefit aviation and the public of Australia, not big banks and development sharks.
The big questions, has corruption occurred? Can the Murky Mandarin keep a lid on it?
Time will tell.