Well at last The Citizen has covered Green party criticisms of the airport expansion - and gave a nice (??) pic from the demo last summer. They used an older letter in todays' edition - click here for my latest version. The Echo have also been in touch re a story on the environmental impact.Photo: newspaper clipping in todays paper of Cathy Green (Cheltenham Green party) and myself
Since starting this blog I've had many emails and comments left on many of the items - one recent correspondence has been with a campaigner up in Carlisle where they are also fighting airport expansions - it has been good to share and hear about others challenges - I also get regular emails re the situation with Bristol and of course down in Cornwall - infact Greens had quote in yesterdays Independent on their campaign there - and a good write up in their local paper - Greenpeace cleverly offered free rail tickets instead of the flights.
The Citizen also quoted me re the budget - see earlier blog for full statement and link to the Green party's budget - two quotes in one day is OK especially as I had thought they were boycotting Green letters and news releases - very few have been published in recent weeks.
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The new open skies treaty to liberalise transatlantic flights will increase the number of flights between the US and Europe by half over the next five years - an additional 25 million air passengers.
As Green MEP Caroline Lucas said in The Guardian "it is simply incompatible to be encouraging a large increase in the number of flights between the EU and US at the same time as cutting greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently to either prevent the worst impacts of climate change or even meet the emissions reductions targets agreed at the Brussels summit."
And this is supposed to be one of the things about which we are supposed to be happy with the EU. It seems they can manage joined-up policy as well as the British Government.
And, whatsmore having cheap flights to the US will only increase the Americanisation of our European cultures. Shameful.
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