| Topic: | Re:Re:Heathrow - Panorama Monday : Friends in High Places | |
| Posted by: | Neil Anderson | |
| Date/Time: | 21/07/08 23:14:00 |
| Noise and pollution are the two factors which can stop expansion in its tracks, and were also the key factors in the government's consultation. Heathrow cannot breach the EU air quality directive so the government has a choice: 1) Fix the data (which is what Panorama was about) 2) Move the goalposts (which is why the government is trying to delay compliance) 3) Stop expansion Morally and legally there should only be one option. Politically they seem to believe they can do what they like. The economic case has been dismantled and all the other aspects are valid for us as residents under the flightpath - flights over an urban conurbation, a massive increase in road traffic and strain on the social infrastucture of expansion were to go ahead - but these things are of no concern to BAA and therefore of no concern to this government. |