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Posted by jossc — 6 January 2009 at 11:21am
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With the government's long-delayed decision on a third runway at Heathrow rumoured to be imminent, the
intrepid women and men of the Climate Rush will be making their suffragette-inspired opposition felt at the airport next week.
MPs return from their winter holiday on Monday 12 January, so that evening at 7pm the Climate Rushers will hit Heathrow Terminal 1 for a peaceful picnic. Terminal 1, for those not familiar with the airport, deals principally with domestic flights, the sort of short-haul journeys which could easily be made by other, less climate-wrecking forms of transport. And they are inviting all of us who are fed up with the obvious lack of action on this most serious of issues to join them.
Posted by jossc — 26 November 2008 at 3:02pm
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Boy are BAA keen on a third runway for Heathrow. Their enthusiasm knows no bounds, and there appear
to be no lengths they won't go to to get their own way - purely for the good of the country, of course
(even though they are Spanish owned) - no shabby profit motives involved.
So far in order to see their dream come true they have:
- colluded with the government (through a joint body - the Heathrow Delivery Group)
to steer their plans through the consultation process
- supplied their own data for calculations of noise and pollution that inform the proposal, and prevented opposition groups gaining access it it to carry out their own analyses
- written parts of the consultation themselves
- drawn up a 'risk' list with the Department of Transport to counter opponents of the
proposal (including the 2M campaign, the group comprising local councils representing 2 million people who'll be affected by the new runway)
- taken out an injunction against Airportwatch, the umbrella organisation who's
members include such radical groups as the National Trust, the RSPB, the Woodland Trust and
the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, as well as ourselves.