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Brass neck or corporate suicide? BAA goes for Stansted expansion

Posted by bex — 11 March 2008 at 5:04pm - Comments

You'd think being slammed for bad science, government collusion and involvement in reverse engineering a consultation in the space of a fortnight would be enough to give a company pause for thought.

Not BAA, who have just submitted an application to build a second runway at Stansted. The runway would add the equivalent of 11 million tonnes of CO2 to the UK's annual carbon footprint, bulldoze a thousand acres of countryside and make Stansted bigger than Heathrow is today.

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Greenpeace response to Stansted submission

Last edited 11 March 2008 at 2:27pm
11 March, 2008

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.

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Block second Stansted runway, Greenpeace urges

Last edited 30 January 2007 at 2:54pm
30 January, 2007

Aviation is the fastest growing source of climate emissions in the UK

BAA announces plans to expand airport as UN readies climate report

Stansted airport operators BAA today unveiled plans for a second runway, prompting condemnation from environmental campaigners concerned at the role aviation is playing in fuelling climate change.

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Block second Stansted runway, Greenpeace urges

Last edited 30 January 2007 at 9:00am
30 January, 2007

BAA announces plans to expand airport as UN readies climate report

Stansted airport operators BAA today unveiled plans for a second runway, prompting condemnation from environmental campaigners concerned at the role aviation is playing in fuelling climate change.

Just two months ago Uttlesford District Council blocked plans to increase passenger numbers at the airport, citing climate change as a reason. But today BAA Chief Executive Stephen Nelson unveiled proposals to push for a second runway at the airport near Chelmsford, Essex.

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