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GREENWASHING THE AIRPORT

  • 25th September 2019
  • SBAE
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Earlier this month a coalition of groups opposed to Bristol Airport expansion demonstrated outside Bristol Council House during the Festival of Sustainable Business where, in an attempt to acquire some kind of environmental credibility, Bristol Airport sponsored a seminar at which a senior executive talked about a zero carbon airport. […]
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Why Bristol Airport should not be granted planning permission to expand its car parking operation

  • 13th September 2019
  • SBAE
  • 3 Comments
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Hilary Burn: a presentation to the Executive Committee of North Somerset Council 11th September 2019 I am speaking here as an elected Parish Councillor and on behalf of the Parish Councils Airport Association representing over 21 parishes.  Parishes within the Association have all objected to the application. The large number […]
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Stranded Assets in North Somerset: the risk of investing public money in infrastructure for Bristol Airport expansion

  • 13th September 2019
  • SBAE
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Presentation to Executive Committee, North Somerset Council 11th September 2011 by John Adams, resident of North Somerset, a near neighbour of the Bristol Airport for 24 years, and director of the Stop Bristol Airport Expansion campaign. Most arguments against expansion focus on the significant harms to health and well being […]
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‘Flying High’: Bristol Airport presses the panic button

  • 6th September 2019
  • SBAE
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Within a period of some 48 hours towards week ending 17 August the North Somerset Council planning website was deluged by several hundred notifications in support of the Bristol Airport planning application. Why? Because Bristol Airport pushed a panic button and sent an email to thousands of customers on its […]
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What can be achieved by one person taking action …

  • 7th August 2019
  • SBAE
  • 2 Comments
  • 1166 Views
  • 4 Likes
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Oz Osborne from Winford has collected 2700 objections to Bristol Airport’s expansion plans in the last couple of weeks. “I visited the ‘silent majority’ – the old folk and others without internet or social media connections living in the Chew valley, many of whom are living under the flight path […]
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Bristol Airport – the ‘carbon case’ doesn’t add up

  • 2nd August 2019
  • SBAE
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Steve Melia The owners of Bristol Airport have recently submitted an application to expand the airport’s capacity from 10 million mppa (passenger movements per annum) to 12 mppa, as part of a longer-term plan to double the airport’s capacity by 2040. They have clearly been shaken by the scale of public opposition […]
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Just Plane Wrong: Bristol Airport expansion

  • 14th July 2019
  • SBAE
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by Adrian Gibbs Analysis of Bristol Airport’s planning application has found that the carbon emissions submitted in the environmental statement hugely underestimate the actual impact of the expansion. Adrian Gibbs, an environmental consultant who analysed the planning statement, found that the “impact of the current planning application from 10 to 12 […]
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Bristol Airport: more fake news

  • 6th July 2019
  • SBAE
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Bristol Airport Controversial Expansion Plans supported by YouGov Poll: but only 271 people were polled and Airport bosses paid for it. Melanie Greenwood writes: A YouGov poll paid for by Bristol Airport has been slammed for stating  a ‘silent majority’ of just 271 North Somerset residents back controversial Bristol Airport expansion […]
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Wrington hosts mini-conference on Airport Expansion

  • 28th June 2019
  • SBAE
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We will shortly publish an account of the meeting (3 July)
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Airport resistance is gathering momentum …

  • 19th June 2019
  • SBAE
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… town by town, village by village, person by person to prise North Somerset out of the predatory grasp of Bristol Airport. IN BRISTOLSeveral hundred people met for the XR (Extinction Rebellion) family picnic on the Downs last Saturday, to protest against Airport expansion, joining hands to create this human […]
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