Port should cut its losses on extensions
Editorial: Now that the project has been stopped the company should cut its losses and think again. It has reclaimed enough of the harbour.
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'Raw anger' at Brown's port stand
Len Brown is being urged by a senior councillor to accept a court ruling on controversial wharf extensions and instruct Ports of Auckland to do the same.
High court halts Ports
Port opponents have won a historic victory and sunk the latest expansion plans involving filling in more of the Waitemata Harbour.
Victory over Ports of Auckland
Ports of Auckland has stopped work on its wharf extension programme after a High Court judge ruled the consents are not lawful.
Complaint against port ad thrown out
A complaint about an ad telling Len Brown and Auckland councillors to stop "violating" the city's harbour has been thrown out.
Fast verdict expected in wharf challenge
Aucklanders should learn the outcome of a legal challenge to the controversial wharf extensions at Ports of Auckland in the next two weeks.
Court battle continues over wharf
Ports of Auckland has today begun presenting its case in the court wrangle over two wharf extensions to Bledisloe Wharf.
Court battle begins over wharf
The temperature of Auckland local politics was not taken when two wharf extensions at Ports of Auckland were granted, the High Court at Auckland heard yesterday.
Auckland port: Urban Auckland heads to court
Urban Auckland is heading to court today to battle Ports of Auckland over the controversial Bledisloe Wharf extensions.
Kim Goldwater: Port history littered with blunders
The port company has a history of making development decision blunders, writes Kim Goldwater. These have been brought about by an ad hoc approach to the planning of port expansion.
Goff joins port campaigners
Labour MP and possible mayoral contender Phil Goff has joined prominent Aucklanders in a second open letter calling on Ports of Auckland and Auckland Council to stop port expansion.
Sam Judd: Plastic consumption a reason behind port expansion?
Let's get rid of the single use plastic, reducing the amount of rubbish we are sending on diesel-hungry boats, writes Sam Judd. It would stop the harbour from filling up with plastic and possibly the extended port.
Study on Auckland's port future could take a year
Len Brown’s office will offer more than $1m to fund a port future study that will take at least a year — not enough time to meet Ports of Auckland’s deadline.
Council joins fight to protect views
Groups battling to save the Waitemata Harbour from further port expansion have found a powerful ally in the Auckland Council, the port company's arms-length owner.
Ports want more 'room to grow'
Aucklanders who think it's safe to go down to the waterfront again after the "compromise" over the Bledisloe terminal extensions must think again.
Port bosses may yet pay price
The compromise between Auckland Council and the Auckland port company will satisfy neither side. Sooner or later, the company has to accept it can have no more of the harbour.
'Hands off the harbour'
A large protest march against wharf extensions at Ports of Auckland has vowed to continue the fight to save the Waitemata Harbour for future generations.
Garth Falconer: Let people-power move Auckland port
For years, the big changes along the central waterfront just happened; they were the result of other peoples' decisions. This time it feels different.
Mayor’s casting vote seals compromise
Auckland Mayor Len Brown says he had to use his casting vote for a compromise over the port company's wharf extension dispute, in the absence of five councillors.
Council's port compromise
Auckland Mayor Len Brown used his casting vote to accept a compromise proposal by the city-owned port company to stop extending the shorter of its two wharf extensions.
Peters: Ports of Auckland acting like 'warlord'
Any further commercial expansion of Auckland's port would be halted under legislation put forward by New Zealand First.
Port land an 'unrealised goldmine'
Ports of Auckland is sitting on land with a commercial value of $2.2 billion, far greater than its $76 million value for port use, says an economist.
Options floated in wharf war
Aucklanders are being softened up for a compromise on two large wharf extensions which will still see the loss of harbour open space to Ports of Auckland, according to sources.
Port interim injunction decision appealed
A Devonport resident is planning to file an appeal after the High Court in Auckland declined an interim injunction to stop work on wharf extensions at Ports of Auckland.
Auckland in for an 'eyesore'
Geoffrey Lang's first sighting of a 33m cement storage tank in front of his house was also the first time he heard his wife swear.
Fears for whales in port plan
Proposed Auckland port developments could be a killer blow for the harbour's already endangered New Zealand orca population, a wildlife expert fears.
Ports head digs in against pressure
Chairman appears to have put his job on the line by digging in against council pressure to stop extending Bledisloe Wharf into the Waitemata Harbour.
Port dispute: Mayor urges calm
Auckland Mayor Len Brown is urging calm among councillors, after defiant comments from the Ports of Auckland leadership over the wharf expansion dispute.
Ted Thomas: Halt port work before court case
Thousands of people gathered on Queens Wharf in March to protest at Ports of Auckland's plans to construct two wharf extensions at the harbour end of Bledisloe Wharf.
Support for halt to port work
The Auckland Chamber of Commerce is supporting a halt of work on two large wharf extensions into the Waitemata Harbour.
Port protesters want mayor to act
Port protesters are targeting Mayor Len Brown to stop work on two huge wharf extensions into the Waitemata Harbour.
Port presses on with extensions
Ports of Auckland is proceeding with two huge wharf extensions, despite public protests, a political call to halt work and a legal challenge against consents for the work.