NDDL airport project dropped: "a very bad decision" (Grosvalet) The controversial plans to build a regional airport in the village of Notre-Dame-des-Landes have been dropped, Philippe Grosvalet, the president of the Joint Airport Association (SMA), told AFP after speaking to one of Prime Minister Edouard Philippe's advisors on the phone. The multimillion-euro project was approved in 2008, but it has remained paralyzed after years of protests and failed attempts by authorities to clear the picturesque farmland. SOUNDBITE