Aviation Planning Disaster
First Broadcast: 14 August 2007
Featuring:
- Brian Ross
- Paul de Zylva
- Alan Simpson MP
The UK government is planning to provide for a tripling of aviation
movements - a move that the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, The
Tyndall Centre and the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee say is
incompatible with our commitment to play a fair role in avoiding dangerous
climate change. Not content with a weighted planning system, the government
is proposing to speed up the implementation of major infrastructure projects
which will lock us into high carbon pathways in the future.
We speak to Brian Ross, economics advisor to Stop Stansted Expansion to find
out how their campaign is going and if the government's arguments about the
economic benefits of aviation have any basis in reality. And we hear from
Paul da Silva, England Campaigns Co-ordinator at Friends of the Earth about
the unprecedented new "Planning Disaster" coalition that has come together
to oppose the proposals in the government's Planning White Paper.
Finally we have an extract from an interview with Alan Simpson MP about why
he will be standing down at the next election and why he thinks that
leadership on climate change can now only be found outside Parliament.
http://www.planningdisaster.co.uk/
http://www.stopstanstedexpansion.com/
http://www.alansimpsonmp.co.uk/
Available Audio
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