AirportWatch Scotland

The Climate 9 have been found guilty of breach of the peace. More serious charges of vandalism were dropped. The charges were significantly reduced over the course of the 2 week trial. Sentence was deferred until August. The protesters were campaigning against any expansion of the airport, claiming it would lead to more harmful carbon [...]

14.6.2010   (The Ecologist)
Scottish climate activists in the dock hope to set legal precedent
Climate activists who broke into Aberdeen Airport hope to convince jury their actions were justified in preventing larger crime of runaway climate change
 The trial of nine climate activists accused of breaching the peace and vandalism after breaking into Aberdeen Airport in a protest [...]

26.3.2010  (Down to Earth press release - Scotland)
A High Court Ruling on Heathrow 3rd Runway throws expansion plans at Scottish airports into question.  Councils, green groups and residents near airports across the UK celebrate victory and call on Government to scrap third runway
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Plans to expand Edinburgh, Glasgow and other Scottish airports were thrown into serious doubt [...]

3.3.2009  (BBC and Plane Stupid)   Protesters who barricaded themselves inside a “wire fortress” on the tarmac at Aberdeen Airport have been taken into custody.  Seven members of the campaign group Plane Stupid were detained at about 0820 GMT after releasing themselves.

Two other protesters, who remained on the roof of the main terminal building, were [...]

8.12.2008  (PlaneSpeaking Scotland)      Over fifty residents met last week to create an action plan to challenge Scottish airport expansion plans to coincide with the Government’s National Planning Framework sixty day consultation period, and to highlight the incompatible proposals of expanding airports whilst striving for the world’s strongest climate change bill  (1).   The numbers attending the meetings [...]

21.11.2008  (Plane Speaking press release)      Campaigners have pledged to take action to stop the expansion of Glasgow and Edinburgh airports (1).  The pledge comes just weeks before the Scottish Parliament considers the National Planning Framework which could give the green light to expansion (2).Â
Local communities around the airport have joined forces with national lobby [...]

29.10.2008       Residents living under flight paths join forces with climate action group, AirportWatch and Plane Stupid Scotland to take part in street carnival as BAA open ʽSkyhubʼ an extension of Glasgow Airport.  At lunchtime today, at of the opening of the biggest development at Glasgow airport since 1994, residents from the surrounding communities set off [...]

We are about to embark on a community activism film-making project in the neighbourhoods around Glasgow and Edinburgh airports - the first due for expansion in the Scottish Government’s National Planning Framework (NPF2).
The prime focus is on the local Glaswegian and Edinburgh airport affected communities, however please do get involved if you like the sound of [...]

16.10.2008   (Plane Stupid Scotland)     Click on photo icon to enlarge
- 4am wake up for Alex Salmond on SNP conference day
-  Residents living under flight paths join forces with climate action group, Plane Stupid Scotland, to adopt radical tactics
At 4am this morning, residents from Clydebank, Paisley, Kirkliston and Cramond peacefully setup a stereo and blasted aeroplane noise [...]

http://www.robedwards.com/2008/09/charges-against-eco-activists-dropped.html

Charges against eco-activists dropped. Rob Edwards
 

Criminal charges against 11 environmental activists involved in three demonstrations in Edinburgh have been abandoned in the wake of a recent jury decision to acquit anti-pollution protesters in England.