Pledge Against Airport Expansion
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Below is the name and personal statement of opposition to airport expansion of everyone who has signed the pledge.
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| 378 | Steve Allanson | My family do not use airplanes to take holidays. This is anyway not compatible with a sustainable lifestyle running our own smallholding. My only concern is that much of the local protest about airport expansion is in fact Nimbyism of the worst kind - with the local protesters continuing to expand their travel using airports not local to them. International holidays several times a year are one of the worst examples of our unsustainable lifestyle. We do not need more airports - instead we need more local resources for local people. |
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| 377 | Marcus Christo | How many more miles of tarmac? We need to be acting locally and working loacally not creating over gloabalisation at the cost of the planet- people and rescources. |
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| 376 | Marilyn Harrison | We must all do are bit to help the planet. |
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| 375 | Smooth | The government can't be allowed to get away with airport expansion when air travel if so catastrophically damging to the environment. To pledge personal action is the least we can do. |
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| 374 | Phil Hall | Enough is enough, and lets face it, we all have more than enough. It's time to tax this environmentally corrosive industry, and help put a halt to its ever greater expansion. Cheap (and for the most part frivolous) air travel should never be misconstrude as a democratic right; freedom from the disastrous effects of 'man' made climate change should. I thus pledge non-violent action against airport expansion. |
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| 373 | Robert Barton | There are many reasons why I object to the expansion of airports. One of the main ones is that their rapid growth is due largely to a substantial hidden subsidy from the government and the fact that airlines do not pay any tax on fuel, unlike all other forms of transport. The success of the Channel Tunnel rail link proves that high-speed rail can win passengers away from the airlines, if there is political will behind their construction. |
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| 372 | Al | We don't need more people flying, and, even if we did, we wouldn't need more airports. If the tax breaks on airlines were removed, these new airports would be completely uneconomic, so they can't be good for the nation... |
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| 371 | Ian Smith | The government states that it is tackling climate change. However its transport policy seems to encouraging it. It is unwilling to invest in expand the railway network so that it can meet the real demand from the public whom wish to use this form of enviromentally freindly transport. Indeed the government has suggested to rail operating companies that they increase prices in real terms to reduce potential demand. However it continues it give massive tax subsises to air industry and refuses to tax it to take into account the full environmental impact of air travel. This has lead to a significant drop in the relative cost of air travel compared to other forms of transport. Instead of insisting that air companies incraese their prices in real terms to reduce demand so that the existing infrastructure can cope with demand , the government wishes to expand to expand a number of airports so that they can cope with this artifical demand. I wish that that the government had a strong transport policy which used fiscal measures to encourage to promote environmentally friendly transport , instead of a ploicy which bows to the interests of corporations and encourages transport which damages the environment through the use of passive tax subsidies. I will personally that part in direct non viloent actions to prevent my local airport been expanded and will also encourage all levels of government to promote all types of environmentally friendly transport such as trains and cycle ways. |
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| 370 | ONE VERY CONCERNED CITIZEN | When a company pollutes a water course and kills all the fish and other life in the river, we say the polluter must pay. This same principle absolutely must be applied to air travellers, and cargo. (I tried to buy organic English apples today (October), but could only find American or Antipodean organic apples in Tesco's supermarket in the UK!!! It's the height of the apple season here!??!! STOP AIRPORT EXPANSION NOW. |
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| 369 | Mark Wheaver | I believe that air travel is misused, under-taxed and under-regulated. If air travel were priced to take into account the environmental cost, there would be no need for the planned massive airport expansion. |
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