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.

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Posted by bex - 7 November, 2008 - 18:28

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Posted by jossc - 5 November, 2008 - 13:33

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Posted by jossc - 4 November, 2008 - 12:47

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Posted by jossc - 27 October, 2008 - 16:06 -

Tories: "we will stop a third runway"

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Posted by bex - 14 October, 2008 - 17:15

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