The point is again, that environmentalists have hijacked (no pun intended) the argument
about airport expansion.
Liberal Democrats are asked
about airport expansion around London and whether new runways should be allowed.
Geoffrey Lipman assistant secretary general to the UN's World Tourism Organisation talks to politics.co.uk ahead of the G20 Summit
about airport expansion, the environment and the ecnonmic impact of a decline in travel and tourism on developing economies.
Not exact matches
Caryn Seidman Becker, Clear chairman & CEO, talks
about the company's
expansion plans to help travelers through
airport security lines faster.
The DfT's 2003 White Paper, «The Future of Air Transport», which sought to provide a strategic framework for air travel development over the next 30 years, acknowledged that there were particular environmental concerns
about expansion at the main London
airports.
Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green party, said: «If we are serious
about meeting UK and EU targets on climate emissions, we must halt
airport expansion and say no to new
airports - the government urgently needs to change its position on an extra runway at Heathrow and
expansion at Stansted.»
He used an article for the Observer newspaper to complain
about the governments» refusal to move faster on securing
airport expansion in the south - east.
The President recently inaugurated one of the FPSOs, made noise
about the $ (Canadian) 125 million the previous administration had contracted, told Ghanaians Air France is going to operate in Ghana because of the new administration's policies when we know that the deal to operate here was completed under the Mahama administration and was made possible because of the
airport expansion projects the previous administration undertook.
Joining us is The Independent's Simon Calder to talk
about London's Heathrow
Airport expansions as well as his love of train travel.
Television director, actor, comedian, and South Florida resident Wil Shriner stops in to talk
about what makes this part of Florida such a wonderful place to live and vacation, and Arlene Satchel, a journalist with the Sun Sentinel discusses how the Ft. Lauderdale
Airport expansion, and Port Everglades, home to the world's largest cruise ships, have been a boon for tourism and the local economy.
On board the show this week is Elaine Sciolino, The New York Times Paris correspondent, to talk
about her book The Only Street in Paris; Alexandra Mangum, television producer (and another American expat living in Paris) with her warnings of when NOT to go certain Paris landmarks; Simon Calder, Editor - at - Large for The Independent, gives insight on the new
expansions at London's Heathrow
Airport as well as some of his top picks to visit in London.
Chicago's Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, and various airline carriers serving O'Hare international
airport are in the final stages of negotiating an $ 8.5 billion deal to expand the
airport from its current... [Read more...]
about Chicago O'Hare
Expansion Plan Is Close to Approval
Expansion is resisted at all
airports — there will still be environmentalists complaining
about climate change, and people will still get displaced.
So governments talk tough
about cutting emissions but blithely approve
airport expansions and build new freeways, as if they had nothing to do with climate change.