End bias in favour of aviation and other stories
January 26, 2008 at 5:48 pm | In Airlines, Aviation, Carbon emissions, Emissions increases, Environment, Heathrow, Heathrow expansion, Taxation, airports | 2 CommentsThree cheers for Guardian Unlimited! The Sunday Observer for 27 January 2008 has covered many topics relevant to Heathrow expansion in these articles:
- Airlines cannot avoid their duties
- Leader: Airlines pay no tax on aviation fuel and are currently excluded from international schemes for controlling carbon emissions. This state of affairs is unfair and unacceptable
- Can airlines find a cleaner way to fly?
- Aviation and carbon emissions: The science
- Britain’s new eco battle
- A historic decision over a new runway for Heathrow is close. And as airports across the UK unveil new expansion plans the growth of aviation will become a fierce battleground between environmentalists and big business. It is a struggle which will shape Britain’s eco future for generations to come
- The arguments for and against Heathrow’s runway 3
- The growth of aviation will become a fierce battleground between environmentalists and big business. It is a struggle which will shape Britain’s eco future for generations to come
- Justine Greening, Tory MP for Putney and a shadow Treasury minister
- Professor David King, former chief scientific adviser to the government
- Now it’s green Adair with Turner to lead UK eco-police
- Adair Turner, the former CBI boss and vice-chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe, is to become chairman of a new high-powered committee to ensure central and local government policies reduce carbon emissions
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[...] the proposed expansion at Heathrow airport. Inel has once again posted an intriguing article called End bias in favour of aviation and other stories, mostly consisting of annotated links to articles in the Guardian. The one that caught my eye was [...]
Pingback by Heathrow Expansion: Supply and Demand | Atmoz — January 26, 2008 #
Thanks for pointing out the article regards the UK committee on CC.
How are those protests at Heathrow coming along? I hope you haven’t been arrested!
Comment by matt — January 27, 2008 #