Responding to BAA's submission of a planning application for a second runway at Stansted airport, Anna Jones, Greenpeace Aviation campaigner said:
"Whatever their executives might say, BAA's dangerous expansion plans smack of growth at any cost. Doubling the number of flights from Stansted and Heathrow at a time when the scientists are telling us we need to urgently slash our emissions is madness. The company will find a passionate majority of people who are ready to fight this runway, for the sake of the local area and their children's future.
Only this week we’ve seen proof that BAA are a company who cannot be trusted, who are willing to play fast and loose with the science in order to push through their expansion plans.
The Government must stop cosying up to them and instead put the safety of the planet first. It must scrap this out-of-control aviation policy and give real support for a sustainable transport system instead."
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