As the founding member of a campaign group, ‘Slough for Terminal 5 Employment Prospects’ (STEP) I am and always have been opposed to a third runway at Heathrow.
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@colnbrookca an interesting article I had published in Prospect union for professionals AviationEYE magazine in 2015
Russell Brand’s “First Night In Prison”. youtube.com/shorts/PCUHfV7s7… via @YouTube
Heathrow Airport uses the corporate purpose and tagline “making every journey better”. Increasing its passenger airside connection times from 60 to more than 90 minutes is hardly making every journey better for Virgin Atlantic and Delta Air Lines passengers (The Sunday Times)
IRRELEVANT? Airlines using Heathrow are methodically replacing older aircraft with next generation bigger wide-bodied jets in order to increase passenger capacity and improve fuel efficiency, larger planes will mean more noise, light pollution and passengers.
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A Poisoned Chalice? A few years ago Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) was widely called the “holy grail” of green aviation because it can replace fossil kerosene without having to redesign aircraft or fuelling infrastructure. Today SAF makes up just 0.8% of global fuel usage.
It’s Never Been Safer To Fly? Years of cost cutting has led to chronic understaffing and unrealistic scheduling that’s leading pilots and cabin crew being asked directly or indirectly to go that extra mile that is now compromising safety.
The world’s wealthiest people are not just profiting from the pollution causes of climate breakdown, they are also increasingly cashing in on the dire consequences. theguardian.com/environment/…
It’s no coincidence that a staggering 7million crimes have been committed in just ONE lawless year. Soft on Crime & Soft on Justice @UKLabour
This exclusive article published in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph sum up clearly why we should ‘drill baby drill’. Whilst @UKLabour has approved production at the Jackdaw site, it is refusing to grant a licence to drill at the Rosebank site, home to Britain’s biggest oil field.
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Heathrow likes to keep quiet about the fact that is produces a staggering 21 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year from its operations and flights already and is ranked a close second to Dubai International as the world’s most polluting airport (Today’s Daily Telegraph)
NEW : Heathrow will only become a “ghost town” if it is allowed to build a costly third runway, that’s my prediction. standard.co.uk/news/london/h…
Local community groups have been given the opportunity to voice their concerns to MP’s on The Commons Transport Committee. Parmjit Dhanda, executive director of Back Heathrow part of Heathrow’s PR Department has bizarrely been invited to speak as well. express.co.uk/news/uk/225666…
Heathrow is owned by extremely wealthy sovereign wealth funds of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and China, and a successful French private entity firm and Australia pension fund. British Airways now wants British taxpayers investment in order to keep costs down (Daily Telegraph)
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More In Common : Prime Minister Andy Burnham is no different from former Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer 40 per cent of voters believe in a new poll.
Andy Burnham announces the new owners of Man City along with a new star signing ... youtube.com/shorts/w2mhpu3-B… via @YouTube
The debate surrounding the £49 billion Heathrow Airport expansion has long been one of the most contentiously argued infrastructure battles in UK history, with critics including myself arguing that the economic and environmental justifications are built on misleading premises.
