Heathrow Expansion

Labour rebels: no to a third runway, yes to high speed rail

Posted by bex — 12 November 2008 at 3:50pm - Comments

A Greenpeace banner says 'yes!' to the new international terminal at St Pancras station

Greenpeace welcoming the opening of the new international terminal at St Pancras last year © Will Rose/Greenpeace

Almost a year ago to the day, we went along to St Pancras to welcome the opening of the new international terminal with an enormous Yes! banner. Our point was of course that the UK doesn't need new runways, we need new high speed rail links; then, as now, there were at least 100,000 flights a year between Heathrow and destinations easily reachable by train.

Since then, the Tories have not only opposed the third runway at Heathrow, they've also warned companies that they "should be very, very careful" about getting involved in any contract for a third runway as the Tories were "absolutely determined" to stop the project.

Article tagged as: airport expansion, aviation, climate change, heathrow, heathrow expansion, mixed mode, third runway

Two opportunities to stop Heathrow expansion

Posted by bex — 7 November 2008 at 6:28pm - Comments

Thousands show their opposition to Heathrow expansion

With the decision on Heathrow’s third runway expected this year (honest), the atmosphere in Westminster is heating up.

Both opposition parties have come out strongly against the third runway; rebel Labour backbenchers are increasingly joining the opposition; there are signs that the cabinet is split over the decision; and the new transport secretary Geoff Hoon has called for a parliamentary debate on Heathrow expansion next Tuesday.

All of which means there are now two new opportunities for us (by which I mean you…) to intervene and make the opposition felt in the corridors of power.

Article tagged as: aviation, climate change, events, geoff hoon, heathrow, heathrow expansion

Tories: "we will stop a third runway"

Posted by bex — 14 October 2008 at 5:15pm - Comments

Heathrow Airport

I still suspect I may have fallen down a rabbit hole but apparently it's true. Two weeks after formally telling the world they're opposed to a third runway at Heathrow, the Tories have issued an extraordinary warning to companies. Don't get involved in any contracts to build the third runway, they're saying, because we're "absolutely determined" to stop the project going ahead. (Oh, and they're opposed to a second runway at Stansted too.)

Article tagged as: airport expansion, aviation, climate change, heathrow, heathrow expansion, third runway

The Climate Rush is coming to suffragette city

Posted by jamie — 1 October 2008 at 12:05pm - Comments

Climate Rush While the preservation of civil liberties is an ongoing struggle (the government's ID database plan is one I think is definitely worth challenging), we've still come a long way in the last 100 years.

Back then in the days of empire, Britain might have straddled the world but women had no voting rights and it was only thanks to a group of determined women waging a persistent (and sometimes violent) campaign of direct action that, in 1928, the government finally passed a bill granting equal voting rights to both sexes.

Article tagged as: aviation, climate change, climate rush, coal, heathrow, heathrow expansion, parliament, suffragettes

Trains, planes and Tory party policy

Posted by bex — 29 September 2008 at 11:52am - Comments

Yes!

Greenpeace saying Yes to the new high speed rail link to Europe last November © Rose/Greenpeace

We've been hearing likely sounding noises for a while now but today, the Conservatives have formally announced that they'd say no to a third runway at Heathrow, and yes to a high speed rail link between London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds instead.

And so I find myself a bit befuddled to be wholeheartedly agreeing with a Tory party spokesperson, Theresa Villiers. She said:

Article tagged as: aviation, climate change, conservatives, heathrow, heathrow expansion

Ken keeps up the pressure against Heathrow expansion

Posted by jossc — 18 February 2008 at 1:27pm - Comments

With just over a week to go until the consultation process ends, London mayor Ken Livingstone is keeping up the pressure on the government to abandon plans to build a third runway at Heathrow airport. During a visit to Sipson, one of three villages threatened by the bulldozers if the plans go ahead, Ken said: "It is vital that all airport expansion in London and the South East, including Heathrow, is halted now as it is completely contrary to the growing evidence on the role of aviation in contributing towards catastrophic climate change.

Article tagged as: aviation, climate change, co2 emissions, heathrow expansion, ken livingstone, transport
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