Airplot!

Last edited 29 November 2010 at 12:00pm

Climate-wrecking plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport have been axed. In a huge victory in the fight for genuine action against catastrophic climate change, the coalition government has cancelled the project. Which means that Airplot, the piece of land slap bang in the middle of the proposed third runway site at Heathrow and collectively owned by tens of thousands of people from around the world, probably won't now be needed.

Campaign updates

Injunction ruling due on Monday

Just a very quick update. The Heathrow injunction hearing has closed and Mrs Justice Swift will be ruling at 10am on Monday.If you want some weekend reading to...
Posted by bex - 3 August, 2007 - 16:13

Heathrow injunction update: confusion all around

The hearing on BAA's Heathrow injunction began today and, so far, it mostly seems to have involved debate about whom BAA did and didn't intend to injunct.From...
Posted by bex - 1 August, 2007 - 18:40

Message from the North: "Climate change is upon us"

A glacial melt lake in Greenland.It's becoming pretty obvious that the aviation industry is creeping closer and closer to the tactics of big tobacco and...
Posted by bex - 31 July, 2007 - 10:44

Heathrow injunction: Transport for London joins the fray

Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone has just joined the fray, speaking out against BAA's injunction. (If BAA wins its case next Wednesday, five million people...
Posted by bex - 27 July, 2007 - 14:06

Aviation industry takes five million people to court

Update - 1st August: The hearing is underway.Here's a doozy for you: on Wednesday, the aviation industry is taking five million people - including a lot of...
Posted by bex - 26 July, 2007 - 18:15 -

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