Johnson airport plans could threaten legal challenge to Heathrow runway
court case based on environmental argument
against expansion of Heathrow he is helping to fund, it was claimed today.
opposed to a third runway at Heathrow, said a legal challenge based on the detrimental
environmental impact could be undermined by moves to increase flight capacity
elsewhere in the south-east.
challenge the government’s Heathrow decision in the courts.
in the the belief that there is an economic case for increasing capacity in the
London area.
grounds was to propose alternative modes of
rather than suggest creating extra capacity elsewhere.
is the environmental impact of extra air travel. If we are going to be successful
in making that case then obviously we are not going to propose putting it somewhere
else. It is our belief that the world as a whole cannot accept an extra three
million tonnes of C02 being emitted … A lot of our efforts is looking at alternatives
to air travel.
cannot accept there is a need for extra airport capacity elsewhere.”
made clear to the committee that talk of increasing flight capacity would undermine
the environmental case.
cannot accept there is a need for extra airport capacity elsewhere.”
of high-speed rail links to supplant short-haul flights would not address a growing
demand for international flights.
there was still a need for flights. We need to be realistic.”
gave the go-ahead to Heathrow expansion last month, given the strength of opposition
over environmental concerns for London and quality of life issues for local residents.
for Londoners, he said.
to take off over water.
believe Heathrow expansion was a “done deal” anyway.
for expansion, “which is critical because it will be the next government who will
give permission or otherwise to BAA”.
18 months whose job would be to lobby the city and put across that the expansion
of Heathrow was not essential to economic growth.