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Stansted and City airports get the expansion go ahead
Posted by bex on 10 October 2008.
There've been two new blows to the UK's prospects of tackling climate change in the last couple of days.
First, City Airport got permission to increase flights to and from the airport by up to 50 per cent - despite the presence of dozens of flashmobbers registering their opposition outside Newham Town Hall (where the decision meeting was taking place), and local planners, teachers and campaigners from a number of organisations inside the hall. And despite the fact that the airport representatives couldn't and didn't even try to answer the accusations that they'd lied and their noise figures were inaccurate.
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