Niederrhein/Weeze/Laarbruch/Dusseldorf Regional Airport (take your pick, it’s all the same) has opened about a year or so back. No news here. Prior to the opening a lot of NIMBY’s where complaining about the noise, depreciating house values, fumes… the usual complaints.
Some of these NIMBY’s even went so far as to go to court. In order to make their claim seem more important it was signed by lots of people. In fact, many NIMBY’s decided to enlist their children as well.
The court order has now gone through trial, and the judge declared the NIMBY’s claims false.
Now the fun part… in Germany anyone that files a lawsuit they loose has to pay an administrative fee. This fee is a fixed rate of 75 euros per person (+/- 50 pounds). Many parents now have to pay not only for their own complaint, but also for that of the children they enlisted. Some of the children that where on the list where as young as 5 years old.
The local NIMBY group has adviced their flock not to pay the children’s fees. The reason for that is because the children are minors, and as such not allowed to petition for a lawsuit in the first place!
Personally, I hope this goes to court so that the NIMBY’s will get a double (or should that be tripple?) bill!
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February 11, 2005 at 10:00 pm