60 Reasons to Protest: Reason #47 – Misleading data & flawed engagement
Both Airservices and BAC have argued that they have “consulted widely” in the lead-up to the 2020 launch of Brisbane’s new flight path architecture. Have you received any honest, easy-to-understand and accurate information? For example:
- Your home will be directly under a flight path.
- There will be more than 100 flights per day directly over your home.
- The noise pollution will be regularly in the range that the World Health Organisation deems harmful to human health.
- These noise levels are scientifically proven to be detrimental to childhood learning.
- There will be peak periods where flights will be every 2 minutes for several hours. These peak periods are early morning and early evening i.e. during family time.
- There will regularly be flights at night between the hours of 10 pm and 6 am over your home that will be disruptive to your family’s sleep.
- We recommend that you move away from Brisbane if any of the above points are likely to cause you distress. We will not offer any support or compensation for this.
- Airservices and BAC assume no responsibility whatsoever for financial harm or harm to human health.
Compare this with Airservices’ “Commitment to Community Engagement,” which says:
“We are committed to clear, proactive, inclusive, accessible, responsive, transparent engagement with communities who may be affected by proposed changes to flight paths and airspace.”
The way Airservices and BAC misled the community, conducted engagement theatre, used flawed noise modelling, and deceived communities about the real impacts of the flight path architecture has been detailed in the BFPCA submission to the ANO and in the ANO report.
BFPCA demands that the Air Services Act 1995 be amended to free Airservices from its regulatory capture by the aviation industry. The lies and deceit must end. The community engagement theatre must end. Strong regulatory controls and oversight must be installed.
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