5 Replies to “Wow! Very significant”

  1. The 21st was a celebration day, Coul Links. This is frankly amazing.
    It would be to early to think that the tide is turning, wouldn’t it?

  3. Of course the Heathrow Third Runway case is more about protecting local house prices, continuing the UK’s house price scandal, than it is about protecting the environment. The environment is just the means they are using to protect that end. It is not really a victory for the environment in a way that ending grouse shooting would be, for example.

    Lets call this one a qualified victory, at best, with some dangerous knock on social effects.

  5. Yes, a great result. Although the Government has said it’s going to leave it to the Heathrow Airport authority to bring it to appeal, they have also put up spokesmen this morning to re-iterate their continuing support for UK-wide airport expansion. Their lack of credibility over climate comitments could hardly be clearer.

    And the cynicism of the airport industry itself is evident too as they claim they are aiming to be “carbon neutral” by 2060 – but when pressed they admit they mean the *airport* will be carbon neutral – but not the air traffic that goes through it!

    Such as shame that today’s interview on the BBC lunchtime news with Roger Gale – president of the All Party Group on General Aviation – focussed entirely on the repercussions of the decision within the Westminster village. Not a single question raised about its significance for policy and politics around climate. And of course, the Labour MPs on that group, along with many of their Parliamentary colleagues, also voted for the expansion.

    incredible as it seems, our MPs and media still haven’t grasped the seriousness of the situation.

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