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Third attempt to build Heathrow Third Runway

Posted on by Admin3342
04
Feb

Heathrow Airport will try for the third time to get permission to build a Third Runway. It is expected to submit an application in the summer after the Government said this week that it would support a new runway in principle. Plans for a third runway were first put forward in 2003. After one of […]

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Climate, Stop Runways

‘No further expansion of freight airport Leipzig/Halle’

Posted on by Admin3342
01
Feb

German petition The planned expansion of the DHL cargo flight center at Leipzig-Halle Airport is expected to lead to an increase in CO2 emissions from the current approx. 6.2 million tons to approx. 10 million tons. Citizens’ initiative ‘Against the new flight route’ protests against this and refers to situations at other European airports. This […]

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Campaigning, Politics, See you in Court, Stop Runways

Court: 3rd runway at Heathrow is illegal

Posted on by Admin3342

Big news. The Court of Appeal – the second highest court in the land – ruled that, as it stands, Government policy on the proposed 3rd runway at Heathrow is illegal. This is because when drawing up the National Policy Statement on Airports, which is the official document used to give Heathrow permission to draw […]

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