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The power of the aviation lobby

Posted on by Wouter Looman
17
Aug

Despite all the fine stories about citizen participation in the aviation dossier in the Netherlands, very little changes. The aviation lobby is simply too powerful. The Ministry treats the aviation industry as a partner and residents as an afterthought. A letter to the Ministry of Infrastructure asking why the aviation industry has so much easier […]

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Argue, Organize, Stop Runways

No third runway at Vienna Airport!

Posted on by Wouter Looman
03
Dec

In Vienna, the board of Flughafen AG announced that it would not be pursuing the third runway project, and three days later, the airport celebrated its 20th anniversary. This seems strange because the announcement of plans to build a third runway at the end of the 1990s was the trigger for the mediation process. This […]

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