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The title is a bit misleading. The court ruled that the government failed to take their climate change commitments into account in approving the third runway. T
by goodcanadian 7y ago
The title is a bit misleading. The court ruled that the government failed to take their climate change commitments into account in approving the third runway. They can go ahead with the third runway if they redo their approval taking climate change commitments into account (unlikely to happen as I understand the Prime Minister is against the third runway).
- toyg 7y agoThe PM was against it when doing that brought him votes. He’s long since wiggled out of any commitment. He could have scrapped it already if he wanted to. This is a PM who likes big infrastructure projects, he just needs to find half-decent political cover.
- Robin_Message 7y agoThe Prime Minister was against it 5 years ago, when he was a constituency MP, on the back benches, in a constituency that would suffer more nosie and air pollution from another runway. And who also supported an alternative of another runway built on reclaimed land nicknamed "Boris Island".