Climate Change conveniently drops off agenda at Birmingham Airport
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issue they try to step over is of course Climate Change. In presentations they
skip over it while in their press release they indicate that they will “consider
Climate Change”.
session of Parliament; as local authorities prepare Climate Change Action Plans
and even George Bush leads discussions on the subject, BIA is only prepared to
consider Climate Change within the period of the forthcoming master plan, which
is its vision to 2030. This shows a considerable lack of leadership from an institution
which sees itself as a lynchpin of the regional economy.
by some the overall results of this master plan will be more noise, more traffic;
surface and airborne, more pollution and a huge increase in carbon emissions;
both at low and high altitudes.
the real threats to our quality of life from such outrageous growth from a noisy,
dirty and polluting industry.
next 23 years which only seeks to “consider” what is arguably the most important
issue of our times, Climate Change, is woeful in the extreme. The Aviation Industry
behaves as if they are on another planet with no responsibilities for current
and future generations. Once BIA comes forward with their plans for expansions
and extensions it will be for wider civil society to rein them in and make them
aware of those responsibilities.”