Plane Stupid Disrupt Parliamentary Committee In Commons

28.11.2007
3.15pm — Cli­mate activists opposed to plans for a third run­way at Heathrow this after­noon dis­rupt­ed a Par­lia­men­tary inquiry going on inside the House of Com­mons. Pro­tes­tors from cli­mate action group, Plane Stu­pid, dis­rupt­ed the pro­ceed­ings of the Trans­port Select Com­mit­tee who were hear­ing evi­dence from BAA boss, Steven Nel­son and Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter, Jim Fitz­patrick.

3rd runway parliamentary committee disrupted28.11.2007
3.15pm — Cli­mate activists opposed to plans for a third run­way at Heathrow this after­noon dis­rupt­ed a Par­lia­men­tary inquiry going on inside the House of Com­mons. Pro­tes­tors from cli­mate action group, Plane Stu­pid, dis­rupt­ed the pro­ceed­ings of the Trans­port Select Com­mit­tee who were hear­ing evi­dence from BAA boss, Steven Nel­son and Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter, Jim Fitz­patrick.

The team of pro­tes­tors wore t‑shirts embla­zoned with “No Third Run­way” inter­rupt­ed the inquiry into “The future of BAA” and hand­ed out copies of a Tyn­dall Cen­tre cli­mate change report about the impacts of fly­ing on glob­al warm­ing.

Plane Stu­pid accuse the Gov­ern­ment of pre-judg­ing the deci­sion on the Third Run­way and ignor­ing recent sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence about the impacts air­port expan­sion would bring upon cli­mate change.

Activist for Plane Stu­pid, Richard George, said:

“The Gov­ern­ment are spin­ning that they want an open and thor­ough con­sul­ta­tion on expand­ing Heathrow but they’re ignor­ing mass oppo­si­tion and sci­en­tists’ warn­ings and are col­lud­ing with BAA to con­crete over pub­lic debate.”

He added:

“Despite over­whelm­ing evi­dence of the impact of car­bon emis­sions from avi­a­tion — the gov­ern­ment are delib­er­ate­ly ignor­ing con­cerns about cli­mate change. The plan for a third run­way flies in the face of the sci­ence and were it approved it would pol­lute more than the whole of Kenya!”

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