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HEATHROW Airport expansion plans were fiercely opposed by community and environment activists yesterday after a report recommended that it get a new runway rather than Gatwick.
The Airports Commission said that Heathrow was best placed to deliver “urgently required” capacity, but residents of north-west London and environmental campaigners strongly condemned the idea.
Prime Minister David Cameron will also have to decide this year whether to accept the recommendation, despite risking a humiliating U-turn on his own “no ifs, no buts” vow that Heathrow expansion would not go ahead.
Established as a landmark victory for the climate movement, the CCC promised to hold governments to account. Today, it is understating the danger of climate chaos and impeding the radical action needed, says IAN SINCLAIR
Lawyers to challenge approval of data centre in Britain that ‘pollutes on the scale of an international airport’
