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Friday 12 March 2004

Council forges ahead with Heathcote Valley Park project

Christchurch City Council’s plans for its exciting Heathcote Valley Park development will not be stalled by the recent Tamaki Heritage Experience decision to put its Ferrymead project on hold.

Within the next month the Council will give approval for a contractor to start work on the extensive wetland and waterway project on the Heathcote Valley floor. This work will include creation of wetlands and a saltmarsh area with associated plantings; water treatment ponds; walking/cycling/horse-riding tracks; and two new sportsfields.

The Council will also continue with its rehabilitation of the former landfill site at Woodhill, Ferrymead. “Rehabilitation of this area will ensure that health and safety requirements have been met for the Tamaki project or any other development on the site,” Christchurch City Council project manager Darren Moses said.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>