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Hi there,
A few hours ago, four Greenpeace campaigners watched a
plane land at Heathrow - one of the 32 daily flights between
Heathrow and Manchester.
As
soon as the passengers had disembarked, our four campaigners
walked through the double doors at Terminal One, crossed
the tarmac, climbed onto the fuselage and hung a banner
reading "CLIMATE EMERGENCY – NO 3rd RUNWAY"
across the plane's tailfin. The campaigners have now all
been arrested.
Read
the full story.
If
you've been following our campaign against Heathrow expansion,
you’ll know why we’ve taken peaceful protest to the airport;
aviation is the fastest growing source of emissions in
the UK and, if left to grow at the predicted rate, it
will wipe out our chances of meeting our emissions targets.
As
Anna, speaking from the top of the plane said: "I am standing
on this plane because our planet and the people who live
on it are in danger. Climate change can be beaten - but
not by almost doubling the size of the world's biggest
airport."
The
Heathrow consultation will end on Wednesday. It's been
a sham from the start, with the aviation industry (BAA)
actually writing parts of the consultation documents.
Instead of supporting it, the government needs to put
in place a moratorium on all airport expansion.
And,
if the government is serious about tackling climate change,
it needs to show the political courage to make a clean
transport system a reality. The £9 billion pound tax subsidy
the aviation industry gets every year needs to be ploughed
into our railways to make trains cheaper and better (at
the moment, train travel in the UK is the most expensive
in Europe).
If
you're in or around London tonight, come along to the
end of consultation rally
at Westminster (7pm, Methodist Central Hall). And
you still have time to write
to Gordon Brown asking him to get serious about climate
change and stop Heathrow expansion. Lastly, don’t forget
to join our Stop
Heathrow Expansion Facebook group.
Thanks for your support,
-- Bex Sumner
Monday, February 28, 2008
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