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Heathrow expansion clears latest hurdle as High Court rejects legal challenge

By Alistair Smout

 

FILE PHOTO: An aircraft takes off at Heathrow Airport in London, Britain January 8, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

 

LONDON (Reuters) - The expansion of London's Heathrow Airport inched closer on Wednesday when a High Court judge rejected legal challenges from environmental campaigners opposed to the building of a third runway.

 

Judge Gary Hickinbottom said he did not accept the arguments made by environmentalists and did not believe the government's transport minister acted unlawfully when he approved the expansion of Europe's biggest airport.

 

"The court held that none of the climate change grounds was arguable," a summary of the judgment said. The campaigners can apply for permission to appeal the rulings.

 

Britain has spent almost half a century trying to decide whether or where to build a new runway in the densely populated southeast of England. If finally opened, it will be the first full-length runway built in the London area for 70 years.

 

Prime Minister Theresa May's government has argued that an expansion will show Britain is open for business and able to develop stronger trading ties with Asia after it leaves the European Union - although Brexit has been delayed by a parliamentary deadlock over the terms of departure.

 

But the expansion plan is still opposed by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, and a lengthy legal wrangle still lies ahead if the campaigners decide to launch another appeal in the next seven days.

 

The No. 2 man in the opposition Labour party, finance spokesman John McDonnell, described the court ruling as "bizarre" after he attended the hearing in London.

 

"This is just the first stage in defeating 3rd runway and protecting our environment," McDonnell said on Twitter.

 

The airport, which is jointly owned by Spain's Ferrovial, the Qatar Investment Authority, China Investment Corporation and other investment companies, is in McDonnell's constituency.

 

The expansion plan, endorsed by parliament last year, is forecast to cost around 14 billion pounds ($18 billion).

 

Under the current plan, the third runway is expected to become operational by 2026.

 

"We are delighted with today’s ruling which is a further demonstration that the debate on Heathrow expansion has been had and won, not only in parliament, but in the courts also," a spokesman for Heathrow said.

 

Environmental groups say the expansion will damage the quality of air and increase noise levels. They had argued the plan was inconsistent with pledges made as part of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.

 

Tim Crosland, a director of one of the groups that made the legal challenge and an adviser to the Extinction Rebellion group that protested across London last month, said the court judgment was disappointing but it was increasingly difficult to see how the third runway could actually go ahead.

 

"Following the recent Extinction Rebellion protests there is widespread recognition that we are in a state of climate and ecological emergency," he said.

(Writing by Kate Holton; Editing by Guy Faulconbridge and Mark Heinrich)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-05-02

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[WeekendRaider]

285 grams per pass./km. and most of us, at least I don't, even know how far we travel on most trips airwise.  at all.  and 6,400 million of us have yet to ever have been in an airplane once in their life yet, for any reason let alone traveling somewhere.  but we are changing that, albeit also building more rail (China is) at the same time which clocks in at 15 grams per pass./km. of something we can't see yet is so powerful we measure it in parts per million, by volume.

it even may account for why we left the trees 8 mya.  and today we have evidence from a jawbone that at one time, this is my 'crazy' theory, there were at lot more than only one other human like creature that could cook it's own food.... and something killed them off (ahem) so that today there is only one "blessed" (obviously somehow) survivor, plus a story that at one time there may have been (only) The Neanderthals.... that were very primitive and only we are blessed with "intelligence".  

another piece of evidence.  any story at all about an airplane or airport is really really big news.  instantly.  it just seems to be a bit more than just because it is 'scary' to fly or something like that.  its is why we love to deny that there are almost 8 billion of us to fed and take care of today, and everything we know says that the present concentration of GHG will throw us back to a point long before we left the trees, let alone had modern societies.  it takes a few decades because of how big the ocean is, but there are signs maybe that that latency could get shorter.  maybe 10 years, and we keep emitting GHG as if we want to make it even more horrific, we would face horrors without any solace that we would be leaving anyone behind, and it would be slow such as electrolyte imbalances... not enough food supplied to urban areas especially.  plenty of time to think of our ignorance.  one judge is just one judge, in the USA plenty have ruled the opposite on Julianna vs. the USA. 

all of this is what Elon Musk calls "insanity". he himself isn't always a nutter (the cave thing comments).  not at all. not on this thing. 

Edited May 2, 2019 by WeekendRaider

[thaibeachlovers]

Ah, the British delight to shoot themselves in the foot at every opportunity.

Extending Heathrow is barking, no other explanation needed.

 

The only sane action is to build 2 airports, one on the east coast and one on the west coast. Many good reasons to do so- reduces air flying hours, gives London a bit of respite from too many planes flying overhead all day and much of the night, etc.

A check in terminal could be left at Heathrow to take advantage of the existing transport options, and a real high speed train would deliver people to the airports.

Win win,  but the Brits are choosing lose lose again, of course. It wouldn't be Britain if they did things properly.

Good grief, what ever happened to the nation that once was great?

[Krataiboy]

2 hours ago, WeekendRaider said:

285 grams per pass./km. and most of us, at least I don't, even know how far we travel on most trips airwise.  at all.  and 6,400 million of us have yet to ever have been in an airplane once in their life yet, for any reason let alone traveling somewhere.  but we are changing that, albeit also building more rail (China is) at the same time which clocks in at 15 grams per pass./km. of something we can't see yet is so powerful we measure it in parts per million, by volume.

it even may account for why we left the trees 8 mya.  and today we have evidence from a jawbone that at one time, this is my 'crazy' theory, there were at lot more than only one other human like creature that could cook it's own food.... and something killed them off (ahem) so that today there is only one "blessed" (obviously somehow) survivor, plus a story that at one time there may have been (only) The Neanderthals.... that were very primitive and only we are blessed with "intelligence".  

another piece of evidence.  any story at all about an airplane or airport is really really big news.  instantly.  it just seems to be a bit more than just because it is 'scary' to fly or something like that.  its is why we love to deny that there are almost 8 billion of us to fed and take care of today, and everything we know says that the present concentration of GHG will throw us back to a point long before we left the trees, let alone had modern societies.  it takes a few decades because of how big the ocean is, but there are signs maybe that that latency could get shorter.  maybe 10 years, and we keep emitting GHG as if we want to make it even more horrific, we would face horrors without any solace that we would be leaving anyone behind, and it would be slow such as electrolyte imbalances... not enough food supplied to urban areas especially.  plenty of time to think of our ignorance.  one judge is just one judge, in the USA plenty have ruled the opposite on Julianna vs. the USA. 

all of this is what Elon Musk calls "insanity". he himself isn't always a nutter (the cave thing comments).  not at all. not on this thing. 

Well, at least you care.

[Krataiboy]

We definitely need a bigger airport, if only for more planes to fly more climate change experts to more conferences to give us more warnings on the danger of building bigger airports.

[Scott]

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