Friends of Pickering Airport

Passenger Recovery Snapshot - Friends of Pickering Airport I have discovered some surprising insights that everyone needs to hear. A clear link between lack of airport capacity and our economy.

Let Pickering Grow – Revoke Airport MZO 102/72 - Friends of Pickering Airport Print 🖨 PDF 📄 eBook 📱By Ted Nickerson & Mark Brooks Way back in 1972, after the federal government assembled the lands in Pickering for a future airport, the province established 5 Minister’s Zoning Orders (MZOs). The goal is to further protect for an airport by restricting uses on lands ...

The Meigs Field Massacre and Canadian Airports - Friends of Pickering Airport Meigs Field was a successful downtown airport just like Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport. Will Canada see a repeat of a tale of priceless infrastructure destroyed? Or will we learn the hard lesson taught by an attention-seeking Chicago Mayor and his Al Capone moment?

If you live in the Durham Region, Union East station will forever change how you move.

Pickering’s Union East Station – Intermodal Transit Magic - Friends of Pickering Airport Print 🖨 PDF 📄 eBook 📱Downtown Toronto’s Union train station is a well-known anchor point for the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) mass transit systems. A place where passenger rail, subway and bus services cross connect. Now a just-released RFP from the City of Pickering and the Regional Munici...

A lighthearted look at the the future of the Greater Toronto Area and the critical role aviation will play.

MEGATOR - Toronto in the year 2100 Predictions for Torontos future in the year 2043 and the year 2100.

It is hard to find the words to describe the misery of Canada’s housing crisis in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). For a decade demand has outstripped supply causing prices to soar. For most, buying a home is now an unattainable dream. Many are struggling to make enough to afford rent. Manufacturing and service businesses are also struggling with soaring land costs, if any land can be found at all....

Federal Inaction Fueling a Housing, Productivity and Aviation Crisis in Toronto. - Friends of Pickering Airport Print 🖨 PDF 📄 eBook 📱It is hard to find the words to describe the misery of Canada’s housing crisis in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). For a decade demand has outstripped supply causing prices to soar. For most, buying a home is now an unattainable dream. Many are struggling to make enoug...

This year the Las Vegas Golden Knights, an expansion team founded only six years ago, won the Stanley cup. How did a desert oasis in Nevada, with a population less than half of the 6.3 million of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), achieve something that Toronto hockey fans have been waiting 56 years for? Torontonians are hockey crazy with a fan population estimated to be more than double the next largest hockey market....

Time for an NHL expansion team in the GTA - Friends of Pickering Airport Durham regions rapid growth has created the perfect spot for a new NHL expansion team in the eastern GTA.

Do you want to defend aviation in social media or support your local airport in a public debate?

Before you do, there are a few things you need to know.

Find out about the Huff, the Puff, the Blow and other NIMBY tactics with our latest post.

Forewarned is forearmed!

https://pickeringairport.org/nimbyism/

The Goals and tactics of NIMBYism - Friends of Pickering Airport NIMBY stands for Not In My Back Yard. A selfish social trend with citizens enjoying the status quo blocking the growth of a community.

NIMBY stands for Not In My Back Yard. It is a social trend in Canada and other parts of the developed world in which a local group of usually wealthy (often retired) citizens enjoying the status quo, block the growth of the community that they live in. The reasons are as varied as the development projects being opposed but are often selfish, short sighted and irresponsible in nature....

The Goals and tactics of NIMBYism - Friends of Pickering Airport NIMBY stands for Not In My Back Yard. A selfish social trend with citizens enjoying the status quo blocking the growth of a community.

Airline Considerations for New Routes Part 2.

In Part 1 we discussed Pickering Airports advantage of location, location and location! We explored how the new airport will complement existing operations at Pearson airport including providing a home for commuter airlines. In addition to commuter airlines (19 seat or less), discount airlines such as Swoop and Flair are prime candidates for new routes out of Pickering....

Pickering Airport Passenger Routes Part 2 - Friends of Pickering Airport The second part of a deep dive into passenger routes at the new airport planned for Durham region just east of Toronto.

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Canadas Aviation Emissions Paradox - how a new airport in Pickering can fight climate change. Pickering Airport can help Canadians fight climate change by improving transportation efficiency, reducing commute times with local accessible infrastructure...

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What is Pickering Airport Economic Zone and why is it important? What is Pickering Airports Economic Zone and whatdoes it mean for our region's future prosperity?Jobs, lower taxes and prosperity for all!

Every aircraft flying today can create net zero emissions by utilizing net zero emissions fuel. Green hydrogen produced locally on demand is the key to net zero fuel for aviation and ground transportation.

Pickering Airports role as a Hydrogen hub - Friends of Pickering Airport Every aircraft flying today can have net zero emissions by making the fuel it uses net zero.

Is there a Need for Pickering Airport? Is there a need for a new major airport in Pickering Ontario to service the Greater Toronto Area?Yes, thanks to the rapid growth of the region, new aviation ...

May 17th, 2023, a landslide vote in the Durham Region council chambers approves of the new Pickering airport's important role in the region’s economic development. The new airport is part of the region’s Official Plan, a plan that is the culmination of years of work completed through the Envision Durham process, the Municipal Comprehensive Review of Durham’s existing strategic growth plan....

Development plan with new Airport Wins vote 20 to 6 at Durham Region - Friends of Pickering Airport New development plan that includes Pickering Airport wins landslide support from regional council in 20-6 vote.

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Pickering Airport Passenger Routes Part 1 - Friends of Pickering Airport What is Pickering Airports passenger route advantage? Location, location and location!

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Farming and The Full Economic Development of the Federal Pickering Lands - Friends of Pickering Airport Farming and The Full Economic Development of the Federal Pickering Lands

An AEZ (Airport Employment Zone), also called an Airport Economic Zone, or an Advanced Enterprise Zone can be defined as: A centre of urban and regional economic growth, which relies on the speed and flow of the economy of an airport. For industry, an AEZ enables a global connection to customers, employees, and logistics. In the 21st century, airports have become logistics hubs connecting major mixed-use urban areas to national and global supply chains. ...

What is Pickering Airport’s Employment Zone? - Friends of Pickering Airport Print 🖨 PDF 📄 eBook 📱 An AEZ (Airport Employment Zone), also called an Airport Economic Zone, or an Advanced Enterprise Zone can be defined as: A centre of urban and regional economic growth, which relies on the speed and flow of the economy of an airport. For industry, an AEZ enables a glo...

Did the April 24th, 2023 Pickering City council meeting go absolutely BANANAs (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone) over a motion playing municipal politics with a federally mandated new airport? While the city has little control over if and when the airport is built, that did not stop two local councilors from putting forth a symbolic motion opposing it. As expected, it generated some media attention for the airport issue. ...

Monday Night BANANA Politics in Pickering - Friends of Pickering Airport Pickering City council meeting went absolutely BANANAs (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone) over a motion playing municipal politics with a federally mandated new airport.

Pickering Airport is One Step Closer to Reality By: David Sprague, President Buttonville Flying Club April 22, 2023 Toronto: Recently, members of the Buttonville Flying Club attended a series of publicly held municipal planning meetings. On behalf of the 200 plus members of the Buttonville Flying Club, part of the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association, I would like to thank the competent and organized elected officials and staff of Durham Region for recognizing the importance of aviation. ...

A Letter from the President of the Buttonville Flying Club. - Friends of Pickering Airport Print 🖨 PDF 📄 eBook 📱 Pickering Airport is One Step Closer to Reality By: David Sprague, President Buttonville Flying Club April 22, 2023 Toronto: Recently, members of the Buttonville Flying Club attended a series of publicly held municipal planning meetings. On behalf of the 200 plus membe...

The need for a new airport in Pickering is back under the magnifying glass of Transport Canada in what could be its final needs assessment. Launched, then withdrawn, the study is now back on. Nothing it seems can stop the final Pickering airport study from getting airborne. The Minister of Transport himself, the Honourable Omar Alghabra announced the new study on aviation capacity. ...

Final Pickering Airport Capacity Study Airborne Again! - Friends of Pickering Airport The need for a new airport in Pickering is back under the magnifying glass of Transport Canada in what could be its final needs assessment. Launched, then withdrawn, the study is now back on. Nothing it seems can stop the final Pickering airport study from getting airborne.

The new Pickering airport is a critical part of Canada’s future economic and aviation infrastructure. Yet the stories recently appearing in our local press rarely mention this. They do not quote aviation or business organizations and rarely touch on the benefits of the airport. Instead, they are covering the topic with a political focus. Why are the views of an anti-airport lobby group contrasted with those of local elected politicians suddenly in the news?...

Can Aristotle help us understand recent Pickering Airport media coverage? - Friends of Pickering Airport Aristotle Would approve Pickering Airport

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Why do Advanced Industries Locate Near Airports? - Friends of Pickering Airport Access to a global economy and global supply chains makes an airport the perfect place to build new industrial manufacturing.

by Ted Nickerson The pending decision by Pickering Council is not going to change the status of the Federal Pickering lands. The above statement is not meant to diminish the importance of the pending decision, nor to be critical of the motion’s proponents. It just means that the motion, if successful, will not achieve what the proponents think it will – End the discussion on the economic development of these federal lands....

Philosophically Speaking…#3: A Pyrrhic Victory? - Friends of Pickering Airport Print 🖨 PDF 📄 eBook 📱by Ted Nickerson The pending decision by Pickering Council is not going to change the status of the Federal Pickering lands. The above statement is not meant to diminish the importance of the pending decision, nor to be critical of the motion’s proponents. It just mea...

By Ted Nickerson Building on my first “Philosophically Speaking” posting, I think the topic of the business case for the current and future use of the Federal Pickering lands deserves comment. I offer several perspectives on this. Is there a business case for farming, or for an airport? Where are they? What does the North Pickering Farms business case really say?...

Philosophically Speaking…#2: Where’s the Business Case? - Friends of Pickering Airport The business case for building Pickering Airport on industrially zoned land worth billions compared to farming.

By Ted Nickerson This is the first of three-part series on the deeper meaning of the fight over the development of Pickering airport. The events of the last few weeks, (the City of Pickering motion to rescind support for an airport / the Region’s Draft Official Plan Statutory Public meeting) got me wondering about the conflict between the Pro- and Anti- Airport folks beyond the numbers....

Philosophically Speaking…#1: Class 1 Farmland - Friends of Pickering Airport Print 🖨 PDF 📄 eBook 📱By Ted Nickerson This is the first of three-part series on the deeper meaning of the fight over the development of Pickering airport. The events of the last few weeks, (the City of Pickering motion to rescind support for an airport / the Region’s Draft Official Plan S...

https://pickeringairport.org/new-pickering-airport-critical-to-economy-and-net-zero-emissions-goals/

Supporting Pickering Airport is the right path - Friends of Pickering Airport Print 🖨 PDF 📄 eBook 📱It has become fashionable for “Headline Environmentalists” to believe that climate change can be fought with political decrees opposing growth. In Pickering, two new councilors’ put forward just such a motion, in this case opposing a new airport on federal land, u...

Final Covid Update - Canadian Passenger Aviation will fully Recover in 2023, but skill shortages (ATC, Pilots, ground crew, mechanics) will hobble the Canadian economy for years to come due to government inaction during the pandemic.

Final Update - Aviation Recovers in 2023 - Friends of Pickering Airport Despite Covid lockdowns and lack of government support Canadian aviation is on a path to fully recover in 2023.

By Ted Nickerson, March 10, 2023 This will be my last update from an aviation recovery perspective. In my first posting on this topic in March 2022, I identified that IATA (1) predicted that North American commercial aviation would reach 94% of the 2019 passenger traffic volume by year-end 2022 and reach 102% by year-end 2023. In my October 2022 update, I reported on encouraging signs from the USA and Mexico and highlighted the lagging but somewhat encouraging aviation recovery performance in Canada....

Final Update - Aviation Recovers in 2023 - Friends of Pickering Airport Despite Covid lockdowns and lack of government support Canadian aviation is on a path to fully recover in 2023.

Here is the insane events as they unfolded last night in Pickering city council meeting from the point of view of our delegation.

Total misinformation madness by those few NIMBYs opposed to the airport.



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In the name of Peace Order and Good Governance - Friends of Pickering Airport Print 🖨 PDF 📄 eBook 📱By Mark Brooks It is late Monday night, and I am in the city of Pickering council chambers about to speak at a council meeting. In among the usual city issues is buried a radical proposition added into the agenda at the last moment the previous Thursday. It is replete [...