Blogposts tagged 'Dft'

A Risky Business: Government spin plan over Heathrow revealed

Posted by christian - 27 March 2009 at 9:49am - 0 Comments

Risk register

Given that Heathrow's third runway is by many (fairly reasonable) standards a hugely unpopular and environmentally damaging project which would flatten a community, significantly contribute to rising UK carbon emissions, and be campaigned against by those bloody NGOs, it's fair to say that it must have been a bit of a headache for the person project managing the task of getting it approved.

If you're a project management type, a risk register (and I had no idea about this before last week), is a document where you have to list everything that could go wrong with the project, how likely it is to happen and how much of a problem it would be. You also have to say what you're going to do about it.

You've got to build runways...

Posted by christian - 24 February 2009 at 1:41pm - 4 Comments

Stansted high court challenge
Campaigners took their opposition to Stansted expansion to the courts today, but are there other reasons to think it might never happen?

Another day, another airport expansion. It's a bit like the opening to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - as Arthur Dent lies in front of the bulldozers to protect his house from being flattened to make way for a road, the man from the construction company berates him: "What do you mean, why's it got to be built?" he says. "It's a bypass. You've got to build bypasses." Substitute runway for bypass, and comedy morphs into reality.

'Divided consumer attitudes' to climate change mirrored by government

Posted by jossc - 18 January 2008 at 4:45pm - 6 Comments

Earlier this week the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) released a report identifying things the public should be doing to limit climate change. Third on the list is to "avoid unnecessary short-haul flights". Apparently we find this hard to do because of "divided consumer attitudes" - ie, we want to have our cake and eat it.

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