PRESS NOTICE
from
Eastern Region Green Party
Tuesday 17th February 2009
Getting Gordon to think again on airport expansion
On Thursday afternoon [tomorrow], Rupert Read, the Green Party's lead MEP-candidate for the Eastern Region, is in Westminster to add his voice to the campaign to persuade the Government to think again about Heathrow's third runway.
At a demonstration opposite Downing Street at 5.30pm on Thursday 19th February, people will have a chance to show that they do take the threat of climate change seriously - as loudly and energetically as they can. Speakers at the demonstration are due to include John Mcdonnell MP, Susan Kramer MP and Jean Lambert, Green Party MEP for London.
Commenting on the call for a demonstration, which he will be attending to add the voice of those many people in Eastern Region who don't want a bigger Heathrow, Cllr. Read said:
"The latest warning from a senior climate scientist makes it clear that the threat of catastrophic climate change is far graver and closer than we had ever thought. We now have less than ten years in which to stop and reverse the global growth in greenhouse gas emissions. The expansion of Heathrow brings no additional benefit to a region such as the East of England, but does add to the emissions that are forecast to bring us into the front line of areas at risk from summer droughts and rising seas."
There is expected to be a counter-demonstration, of a group of people calling "for guilt-free travel, for ever-cheaper flights" in nearby Parliament Square.
Rupert Read strongly rebutted this. He said
"If we do nothing about the expansion of air travel right now, there will be ever bigger oceans in which the pro-expansionists can wash their guilty hands. In the long run, 'cheap' flights will just cheapen life."
ENDS
Note:
The Green Party has consistently opposed all major airport expansion, including at Heathrow, Stansted and Luton airports. The party believes that the expansion plans, backed by Gordon Brown and his government, are totally incompatible with the Government's stated policy of combating climate change through substantially reducing UK CO2 emissions.
Councillor Rupert Read will be available live at the demonstration for comment. Contact: 07946 459066
For further information, please contact the Eastern Region Green Party Press Office
01376 584576
07951 923073
www.eastern.greenparty.org.uk
from
Eastern Region Green Party
Tuesday 17th February 2009
Getting Gordon to think again on airport expansion
On Thursday afternoon [tomorrow], Rupert Read, the Green Party's lead MEP-candidate for the Eastern Region, is in Westminster to add his voice to the campaign to persuade the Government to think again about Heathrow's third runway.
At a demonstration opposite Downing Street at 5.30pm on Thursday 19th February, people will have a chance to show that they do take the threat of climate change seriously - as loudly and energetically as they can. Speakers at the demonstration are due to include John Mcdonnell MP, Susan Kramer MP and Jean Lambert, Green Party MEP for London.
Commenting on the call for a demonstration, which he will be attending to add the voice of those many people in Eastern Region who don't want a bigger Heathrow, Cllr. Read said:
"The latest warning from a senior climate scientist makes it clear that the threat of catastrophic climate change is far graver and closer than we had ever thought. We now have less than ten years in which to stop and reverse the global growth in greenhouse gas emissions. The expansion of Heathrow brings no additional benefit to a region such as the East of England, but does add to the emissions that are forecast to bring us into the front line of areas at risk from summer droughts and rising seas."
There is expected to be a counter-demonstrati
Rupert Read strongly rebutted this. He said
"If we do nothing about the expansion of air travel right now, there will be ever bigger oceans in which the pro-expansionists can wash their guilty hands. In the long run, 'cheap' flights will just cheapen life."
ENDS
Note:
The Green Party has consistently opposed all major airport expansion, including at Heathrow, Stansted and Luton airports. The party believes that the expansion plans, backed by Gordon Brown and his government, are totally incompatible with the Government's stated policy of combating climate change through substantially reducing UK CO2 emissions.
Councillor Rupert Read will be available live at the demonstration for comment. Contact: 07946 459066
For further information, please contact the Eastern Region Green Party Press Office
01376 584576
07951 923073
www.eastern.
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