Reacting to the opening of Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport, Greenpeace senior transport campaigner Anita Goldsmith said:
"Terminal Five stands as a monument to the binge-flying culture this government has done so much to encourage. It's part of an obsession with expansion which can only mean more flights, more emissions and more climate change."
"The ribbon has been cut on a notorious broken promise. When Terminal Four was given the green light in the eighties the government said there would never be a fifth terminal. Then BAA categorically stated they would never build a third runway. When will we have a Prime Minister who has the courage to stand up to the aviation industry?"
"Aviation accounts for 13% of our country's damage to the climate and is growing fast. If we build the new terminals and runways the government is pushing for we won't stand a chance of meeting our climate change targets."
