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Campaign groups against airport expansion
Evening Standard 3 Dec 2007
NoTRAG: The No Third Runway Action Group is a residents' organisation supported by Hillingdon council since 2001. Members: 5,000+
Aim: Stop the Heathrow third runway. Action: Peaceful protests and informing people about the 12-week consultation.
www.notrag.org
2M: The 2M Group is an alliance of 12 local authorities concerned at the environmental impact of Heathrow expansion on the two million people in their communities. Founded last year.
Members: Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Slough, Spelthorne, Windsor and Maidenhead, South Buckinghamshire.
Aim: For the consultation to be extended and for the Department for Transport to hold public meetings in all 12 areas.
Action: Holding meetings, producing campaign newsletters, considering legal challenges to the consultation. www.wandsworth.gov.uk/Home/MyWandsworth/Newsextra/.mgroup
HACAN ClearSkies: A lobbying group founded in the Seventies that stands up for all people affected by the increasing number of flights in and out of Heathrow.
Members: 15,000 to 20,000
Aim: A cap on the number of flights and a ban on night flights; an extension of the runway and flightpath alternation scheme; adoption of the noise levels recommended by the World Health Organisation; a tax on transfer passengers; clear information on flightpaths.
Action: Peaceful protests, lobbying government, meetings to raise awareness. www.hacan.org.uk
Stop Heatrow Expansion: A website group initiated by HACAN ClearSkies this year.
Members: 1,130
Aim: To stop Heathrow expanding. Action: Online petition. www.stopheathrowexpansion.com
Plane Stupid: National group opposed to the expansion of the aviation industry, formed in 2005.
Members: Around 200 activists.
Aim: To stop airport expansion. Action: Direct, such as the Heathrow "climate camp" in the summer. www.planestupid.com
West London Friends of the Earth: Nine borough-based groups linked to the national pressure group, formed in 1971. Members: 60, plus 3,000 supporters. Aim: To stop the third runway in order to save local habitats and prevent pollution. Action: Taking part in protests, leafleting.
www.wlfoet5.demon.co.uk
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What is not widely known is that BAA is NOT 'British' owned. It is PRIVATELY owned by Ferovial - a SPANISH property development company. This inherited grandfather rights for compulsory purchase and demolition of BRITISH citizen’s property. As Christine Shilling opined in a recent NOTRAG Press realise: "when the day comes when Spanish bulldozers begin to demolish British homes and communities (with the connivance of the British Government) is the day when democracy in this country is dead."
- Chris Brady, Harlington, Middx, UK, 05/12/2007 13:59
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NoTRAG is opposed to any further expansion of Heathrow Airport outside its existing operational boundaries. This means no increase in flights, no mixed mode, no abolition of the Cranford agreement and westerly preference and No Third Runway or Sixth Terminal - no land take.
Member of 2M group. Action includes producing press releases and campaign literature, convening borough wide meetings (and planning these in other local authorities adjacent to Heathrow Airport), liasion with other campaign groups -anything and everything to stop relentless expansion of Heathrow Airport.
- Christine M Shilling, Harmondsworth, 03/12/2007 21:01
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