"Indeed just four or five months age, I stood on this very stage speaking to many of the people who are here today and expressed my view that at least so far as the runway expansion is concerned, the report that had been prepared after three years of careful work by the Environmental Assessment Panel, at the cost of some thirteen million dollars to the federal government represented, in my view, the last logical work on that subject."

"There will be no runways. If there are, they'll be over my dead body."

"Runways paved with devalued homes. Government studies show that aircraft nose reduces property value by as much as 7.8% or about $20,000 on a house worth $250,000"

"Increased airport noise intolerable. Safe and realistic levels of airport noise must be established to ensure that our community does not suffer further."

Page 64 of the Red Book, the first one, includes an unequivocal commitment to honour the verdicts of environmental panels.