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Guardian: Greenpeace plans to build fortress on Heathrow runway site
Environmental group says the plan will create a legal headache for any government pushing ahead with airport's expansion
Government's aviation policy blown out of the water
Posted by jossc on 8 December 2009.

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.
Read more »Don't miss the Alistair McGowan railshow!
Posted by jossc on 29 September 2009.

Impersonator extraordinaire, Airplotter and all-round funny man Alistair McGowan is shortly embarking on a nationwide tour of Britain, and he's going to great lengths to make it as green as possible. Alistair is a long-time Greenpeace supporter, and has committed himself to playing a key role in opposing aviation expansion by jointly buying the Airplot with us - the piece of land we acquired slap bang in the middle of the proposed new third runway development site at Heathrow Airport.
Read more »UK aviation emissions must be below 2005 levels and we can't trade our way out of it
Posted by christian on 10 September 2009.

If we can't trade aviation emissions away, and there's no technology fix, will domestic flights have to face the chop?
Big news on aviation emissions, as the Committee on Climate Change - the government's own independent scientific emissions watchdog - have said that the UK's aviation emissions should be 'capped'.
This would mean that they must remain at or below 2005 levels. When the government announced the third runway at Heathrow, they did say that they would do something similar, but the big caveat was that this cap would be flexible, in that it would be possible for the aviation industry to buy carbon credits through the European emissions trading scheme, to balance growing emissions.
Read more »Video: The human cost of Heathrow expansion in words and pictures
Posted by christian on 17 August 2009.
A lovely short photo essay, examining life in Sipson, the village directly threatened by Heathrow's proposed third runway, and home to the Airplot. Read more »
The Airplot Big Lunch
Posted by annaj on 21 July 2009.

The Airplot hosted a very special picnic on Sunday as part of the Big Lunch, which saw a staggering 2 million people sit down for Sunday dinner with their local communities to indulge in locally grown food.
Legal challenge has Heathrow third runway in its sights
Posted by christian on 8 April 2009.
We're taking the government to court. Again. This time it's over the third runway at Heathrow, and we're working as part of a coalition of groups that represent millions of people. NGOs, local councils and London local government bodies are all banding together to put a spanner in the works for the expansion plans.
Read more »Chipping away at the aviation industry fortress...
Posted by annaj on 31 March 2009.
Just say 'No': Anna with Sipson residents outside the Department of Transport
Another busy start to the week - though last week never really finished since I spent most of the weekend at the Airport Watch conference with fellow anti-airport expansion campaigners from all over the country.
It was a really useful weekend, sharing ideas, discussing how we tackle the various false solutions, like biofuels, and smoke and mirrors that the aviation industry is hiding behind, and reflecting on how far we've come. We've won all the arguments, and are gradually chipping away at the government and aviation-industry fortress, the final frontier around the out-of-date 2003 Aviation Policy that underpins airport expansion plans around the country.
Read more »Largest airport operator in the world? Not any more...
Posted by christian on 20 March 2009.
The sun sets on BAA's dominance of the UK aviation sector, probably derailing Stansted expansion plans for good measure.
Times are tough at the enormous aircraft hangar that I like to imagine BAA plot their world domination from. Being the biggest airport operator in the world, not to mention being best mates with the UK government's inner circle, you'd think they'd pretty much be able to do what they wanted. But it turns out the Competition Commission is going to make them sell three of their seven airports - Stansted, Gatwick and either Edinburgh or Glasgow.
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