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Today sees the start of court
proceedings challenging the government's controversial decision to give the go
ahead to a third runway at Heathrow.
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Posted by jossc — 8 December 2009 at 5:10pm
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The Committee on Climate Change's (CCC) report on aviation, published today, explicitly undermines government plans to allow a tripling of passenger numbers on commercial aircraft by 2050.
While its Chairman Lord Turner has been careful not to totally rule out the possibility of creating extra capacity in the form of new runways, the committee is recommending that "the policy focus for aviation must be on limiting demand for flights and investing in alternatives such as better rail links and video conferencing." In an interview on the BBC's Today programme this morning, Lord Turner confirmed that a 200% growth in consumer demand for air travel by 2050, assumed in the 2003 Aviation White Paper, would make reaching proposed emission reduction targets impossible.
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Posted by jamie — 18 November 2009 at 5:07pm
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One of third runway architects Grimshaw's earlier works (photo by Mat Strange)
Even though it hasn't been officially
announced, it's been widely
reported that architectural firm Grimshaw has won the bid to design the
third runway at Heathrow. How much design a strip of tarmac needs I don't know,
but presumably there's more to it than my ignorant assumptions suggest.
Grimshaw are, of course, the firm behind such
eco-hits as the Eden Project and the firm's chairman Sir Nicholas Grimshaw has
something of a reputation for sustainable and environmentally considerate approaches
to architecture.
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Cameron and Clegg back 'trees of resistance'
Actors, political party
leaders, local residents and the Poet Laureate are planting an apple orchard on
the site of Heathrow's proposed third runway to show their opposition to
expansion at the airport.
