Please add links to any articles relating to aviation.
* Monbiot:
We are all killers.
Campaigns
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Airportwatch - the airport expansion protest coalition.
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Plane Stupid (!) - direct action on aviation.
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Aviation Environment Federation - sole UK organisation dedicated to Aviation and the Environment
Govt. policy
* Government
aviation white paper
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Cutting air travel "unrealistic" (7/2/2006) from BBC News
* Subsidy estimates by:
FoE (~9billion),
Commission for Integrated Transport (~2billion)
Impacts
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IPCC report on aviation (see
section 6.2.3 for support for the 3x greater climate impact of aviation emissions).
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No chance for the climate without tackling aviation (2005) (especially slides 12&13), a presentation given at the
Decarbonising the UK conference on 21st September, by Kevin Anderson, Alice Bows & Paul Upham
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Aviation 'huge threat to CO2 aim' (21/9/2005) from BBC News
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Growth scenarios for EU & UK aviation: contradictions with climate policy from the Tyndall Centre.
A done deal?
This whole Heathrow thing, a complete disgrace, but as with all things there's a middle ground that everyone is trying to reach. For example:
a) Heathrow will expand, one way or another
b) It's unlikely to be as intrusive as the plans currently have in mind
c) All the key players are being paid off to make the "right" decisions
What is everyone's pragmatic view on where we'll be in a couple of years time? The reason I ask is because I think the one thing that can't be ignored is the potential removal of runway alternation. Even night flights are generally less intrusive, but the prospect of not being able to have friends round on a Saturday afternoon ever again because of the planes (and don't quote the measly 30% Easterly operations, been no more than a week or 2 all summer this year) is beyond all reason - this is the one single reason that most of West London will change so much if alternation is removed.
So, extra runways, more night flights, alternation - what's the real prospect for LHR?
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