Inverness Municipal Council still has not taken an official position on a proposal for an Inverness airport, but the warden says she’s for investment in the municipality.
The county is still trying to get all the players around the table for an informational meeting.
At yesterday’s regular council meeting, council agreed to the 4 groups who needed representatives at a meeting after the municipality’s CAO told council he had not been able to schedule a meeting yet.
The groups Inverness council wants to hear from are the federal government, the provincial government, Port Hawkesbury airport management, and Cabot management.
After the council meeting, Warden Betty Ann MacQuarrie told The Hawk, they want to get information from all sides about exactly what will be involved.
“We should have a very open, not combative session, with the proponents of the idea of having an airport in Inverness,” she says.
MacQuarrie says she thinks that kind of infrastructure development would be good for the region.
“Some are looking at it negatively, some are looking at it positively, as an injection into the economy, possible tourism growth,” she says. “There are many positives that I’m hearing, of course there are always the negatives out there as well.”
She says though some councilors have inclinations for-or-against, the council wants to get more information before making a final decision.
She says even though they haven’t been able to schedule a meeting yet, she believes there is interest from the 4 key parties.
