airport expansion
Posted by petespeller — 1 December 2011 at 11:19am
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by-nc-sa. Credit: Steve Morgan / Greenpeace
George Osborne launched an assault on
green measures in his Autumn Statement that reads as if it were written by
the UK’s biggest polluters. Tax breaks for heavy polluters, renewed support for
airport expansion, opening the countryside to development, more roads and a
freeze on fuel duty - all this adds up to the dirtiest budget in recent history.
Posted by jossc — 6 July 2010 at 3:17pm
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Last year, the Climate 9 stopped dangerous greenhouse gases reaching the atmosphere by disrupting operations at Aberdeen Airport.
After a two week trial the law found them guilty of breach of the peace but other charges were dropped, and in the court of international opinion they received overwhelming support, which was further legitimised by expert scientific testimony.
Posted by jossc — 20 May 2010 at 4:16pm
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Although there was a lovely buzz around the office following last week's wonderful announcement that the Third Heathrow runway had been scrapped, the wiser heads amongst us were quick to point out that we'd won a battle, not a war.
Our new coalition government may have made good on its pre-election promises over Heathrow, but there have been no such commitments over the 30 or so airport expansions planned for other parts of the country - and they could easily prevent us reaching our CO2 reduction targets if a significant number get the go-ahead.
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