Inverness’s MLA says he doesn’t see a good business case for a second airport in the county.
Conservative MLA Allan MacMaster says he was surprised when the proposal for an Inverness airport, which has been shelved before because of cost, reappeared.
MacMaster tells The Hawk he does want to see investment in the region, he just wants to see government money well spent.
“While it would be nice to have a $18 million injection into the constituency and the community of Inverness,” he says. “We want these kinds of investments to make sense.”
MacMaster says he can think of better places to spend that much money, like the county’s roads.
He says he doesn’t think another airport is a priority for the community.
“The question has to be asked, if there’s an airport in Port Hastings, is it really necessary to go ahead with that,” he says. “And is that a priority investment for the people I represent here in inverness?”
He says he’d rather see an attempt to put commercial traffic through Port Hawkesbury’s existing airport, and he says he doesn’t think the county couldn’t sustain two airports.
