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TOPIC: ARGUMENT112 - The following proposal was raised at a meeting of the Franklin City Council.

"Franklin Airport, which is on a bay, is notorious for flight delays. The airport management wants to build new runways to increase capacity but can only do so by filling in 900 acres of the bay. The Bay Coalition organization objects that filling in the bay will disrupt tidal patterns and harm wildlife. But the airport says that if it is permitted to build its new runways, it will fund the restoration of 1,000 acres of wetlands in areas of the bay that have previously been damaged by industrialization. This plan should be adopted, for it is necessary to reduce the flight delays, and the wetlands restoration part of the plan ensures that the bay's environment will actually be helped rather than hurt."
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TIME: 00:30
DATE: 6/9/2010 9:38:07 AM

The argument is well-presented, but not thoroughly well-reasoned. The airport management is considering building new runways after filling in 900 acres of the bay to increase the capacity and finally reduce the flight delays. Because filling the bay will disrupt tidal patterns and harm wildlife, their proposals are objected by Bay Coalition organization. But the airport management argues that the construction of new runways will fund the previously damaged restoration of 1,000 acres of wetlands in areas of the bay, therefore, it actually beneficial to the bay's environment. It looks like logical.

However, the airport management gives no evidence to show that the flight delays are due to lack of runways. They are failing to consider other possible alternatives to the flight delays. Such alternatives may include the fact that poor weather conditions such as snow, heavy rain and thick frog are often delay the flights, or heavy traffic in skies can also delay the flights, or even technical defects that requires the aircraft to be rectified before departure. It is possible that the management of the airport are inefficient that results in flight delays. If so, filling in 900 acres of the bay and building new runways cannot reduce flight delays at all.

Rebuilding 1,000 acres of wetlands in areas of the bay is not necessarily protecting the tidal patterns and wildlife.
There is a fact that they have to admit. That is filling acres in the bay definitely hurts the tidal patterns and wildlife. Although the wetland is also very important, it is not necessarily offset the disturbance caused by filling acres in the bay. Firstly, the restored wetland may be unable to accommodate wildlife, not mention maintaining the tidal patterns.
Moreover, only providing fund may not be enough to solve the wetland problems. It is possible that the wetland has been completely destroyed and cannot be restored any more. And no one can predict what will happen if the tidal patterns are changed by filling the bay. Disastrous problems may appear since there is no evidence to prove that changing the tidal patterns have no or little influence on the environment.



Considering the possible serious problems caused filling the bay and the unnecessary benefits of building new runways, it is unwise to implement the airport management's plan.