Roughly once a decade airport planners cast their eyes east of London into the marshes and wetlands of the Thames Estuary. In some sort of grotesque bring-forward diary the arguments for (largely its not somewhere else) and the arguments against (communities wiped out, landscapes re-modelled with massive losses of nature’s homes and an assault on our surviving natural world, huge an unpredictable flooding risks around the coasts of the South East, entirely predictable risk of bird-strike ...).
The Transport Select Committee has now added its rejection (the seventh since the Second World War) and you can read our reaction here (with and accent on the implications for our climate) and here from our London Team's Tim Webb. This rejection isn’t final – but is a consistent reaffirmation that the Thames Estuary that plans to build airports in the Thames are flawed.
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