Reacting to proposed options for a new runway at Heathrow airport today (Wednesday 17 July 2013), Friends of the Earth Senior Campaigner Jane Thomas:

“Heathrow airport’s naked self-interest threatens to create further misery for communities living under its flight path and undermine UK efforts to tackle climate change.

“The argument that more airport capacity is essential for Britain is nonsense, London already has more flights to the world's top business centres than its European competitors.”

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