Sentences with phrase «third runway»

As Damian McBride's memoir reminds us, Miliband «effectively threatened to resign from the cabinet» over the planned third runway at Heathrow, a move that successfully torpedoed the policy.

Call by Commons transport select committee to slam the brakes on third runway plans without tough new restrictions on costs, pollution, aircraft noise and night flights

The scheme's director Jock Lowe said: «Just like Heathrow Airport's third runway proposal we too can offer a no frills option while still boosting potential capacity to 750,000 air transport movements post expansion.

Nevertheless there continues to be considerable support for the proposed third runway at Heathrow.

«Theresa Villiers vows to stop third runway at Heathrow Main Eric Pickles wins grassroots» confidence to be next Party Chairman»

She found no evidence that members of the Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise and the No Third Runway Action Group supported or planned any direct action, and ordered BAA to pay the legal costs of those groups.

Pascoe - Watson is a partner at Portland Communications, founded by another Demon Eyes stalwart, Tim Allan, and the firm spearheading the Heathrow third runway campaign.

Boris Johnson has again attacked the government's handling of the disputed third runway at Heathrow, claiming the UK is on track for «economic catastrophe» as a result.

Once apparently grounded for good, the Heathrow third runway debate is now encountering a severe - and prolonged - period of political turbulence.

First came the comments of Tim Yeo, a cheerleader for the Heathrow third runway crowd, whose language in a newspaper article was obviously seeking to undermine David Cameron.

Justine Greening, the new international development secretary whose opposition to the Heathrow third runway cost her her job at the Department for Transport, is thought to have shouted at Cameron.

It would apparently have a lesser impact on local residents than the potential third runway at Heathrow in terms of noise and the need to demolish homes.

Does the resurrection of the once settled Third Runway row at Heathrow suggest a bigger shift in Conservative thinking?

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Heathrow Airport Holdings has recruited Stephenson Harwood senior associate Anita Kasseean for the newly created role of head of legal for planning for the airport's new third runway.

This is exemplified by projects such as Heathrow's third runway expansion where China Investment Corporation own 10 % of Heathrow Holdings.

After last night's picnic flash mob the escalating battle over the proposed third runway at Heathrow Airport in the UK has reached a new level today with Greenpeace taking direct action.

Wednesday's protest, the second in a week from anti-Heathrow expansion campaigners, marked the close of the government's consultation on the proposed third runway for the west London airport.

Greenpeace to Build Fortress on Heathrow Airport Runway No Third Runway but Bunker to Block it

The British government gave Heathrow Airport permission to add a third runway last October but it is not due to be built until 2025.

After a lengthy review, the British government decided last year that it wants Heathrow Airport — Europe's busiest — to get a third runway.

This work came to fruition five years later with responsibility for airport operations being transferred from Transport Canada to a local airport authority, and with the approval for construction of a third runway.

A vicar who's church is set to be demolished in order to make a third runway at Heathrow Airport is calling... More

The British government, for example, will build that third runway at Heathrow for solid economic reasons, full speed ahead and damn the pollution, even while it talks a good «green» game.

The political impact of the latter will be accentuated by the population density of the Central London approach path although the Heathrow owners argue that their third runway proposal would have a less pronounced affect.

It seems that much of the sensible debate surrounding the proposed third runway at Heathrow involves questions of technological advance (with non-sensible debate failing to accept that without such advance the case for the third runway is almost impossible to make).

Of the Heathrow proposals, the runway extension would be the more expensive than the third runway preferred by the Heathrow owners.

Announcing twelve weeks of public consultation on the three options — an expanded Gatwick with a second runway, a third runway, or extending the current northern runway to allow simultaneous take offs and landings, at Heathrow — Davies is on track to publish its final recommendations in June 2015.

As junior ministerial posts were still being agreed, Boris Johnson criticised the prime minister's decision to remove Justine Greening from Cabinet, reportedly because of her opposition to a third runway at Heathrow.

A spokesman for Heathrow Airport said it is «working to improve our plan and reduce costs» for a third runway and confirmed that it was looking to cut costs by around # 3Bn but said that detail will come later.

With the decision on a third runway at Heathrow now deferred until after the 2015 general election, that isn't going to happen.

Now he is running as an independent in a by - election all of his own making, after pledging in 2009 to resign as an MP if ministers backed a third runway at Heathrow.

In an article written this September, Rees - Mogg repeated his support for a third runway, saying that expansion of the airport was «essential for the nation».

A Tory MP has threatened to trigger another by - election in a marginal seat if the government reneges on its promise to oppose a third runway at Heathrow.

For example, they wouldn't accept that a third runway at Heathrow should not go ahead; they were unwilling to abandon identity cards; they insisted on keeping nuclear power, and perhaps most importantly, they were unwilling to consider any further progress towards a fair voting system in the House of Commons.

Revived calls for a third runway at Heathrow are posing challenges for both the Conservative and Labour parties» leaderships.

In July 2015 the Airports Commission backed construction of a third runway at the site, in favour of an extended northern runway (Heathrow Hub) and a second runway at Gatwick.

Speaking about the possibility of a third runway last December, Rees - Mogg explained that «I think we absolutely ought to extend Heathrow.»

Conservative supporters of a third runway at Heathrow will pay a price with voters during the next general election campaign, Zac Goldsmith has warned.

The Conservative party finds itself in disarray over the renewed possibility of a third runway at Heathrow, after thinly veiled jibes at the prime minister from a senior Conservative MP.

However, it was noted that proposals for a third runway could be considered in this parliament, but not implemented before 2015, thus enabling the manifesto pledges to be kept.

The Liberal Democrats also made a manifesto pledge to «cancel plans for the third runway at Heathrow and any expansion of other airports in the South East.»

Johnson lamented the government's decision to back a third runway at Heathrow — but skirted questions as to whether he would lie in front of bulldozers to prevent its construction.

If we have a third runway at Heathrow it's likely to be full within years of opening if not instantly......»

«There is not going to be a third runway going to be built in this parliament,» she shrugged back in 2012, «so as far as I'm concerned we're honouring the pledge in that manifesto.»

When challenged that the Government was reconsidering its opposition to a third runway at Heathrow, the Deputy Prime Minister stated: «it will not happen in this parliament» and the Prime Minister also insisted: «I will not be breaking my manifesto pledge.»

In the September Cabinet reshuffle, Transport Secretary Justine Greening, known to be strongly opposed to a third runway, was moved to become International Development Secretary and Transport minister Theresa Villiers, who also did not support a third runway, was promoted to Northern Ireland Secretary.