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Protestors say NO to Boris Island!

No Boris Island | 13.05.2012 19:39 | Climate Chaos | Ecology

Wide representation of groups demonstrate at City Hall



On Friday morning activists from many different local and national campaign groups such as the Campaign against Climate Change, RSPB, Friends of North Kent Marshes, Friends of the Earth and AirportWatch assembled outside City Hall to send a clear message to Boris Johnson at the end of the very first week of his second term in office: NO BORIS ISLAND!

The demo was addressed by GLA members Jenny Jones, Murad Qureshi and Caroline Pidgeon and covered by BBC Kent TV and radio news, the BBC website and LBC radio.

Read the BBC News report at www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18038853

No Boris Island
- e-mail: no.boris.island@gmail.com

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Diversion

14.05.2012 09:31

Boris island will never happen.

The third runway at Heathrow will happen, you know it and the people of London know it, Boris Island is a sideshow designed to divert attention from the constant land purchasing that is going on around Heathrow right now. Since the Tories came to power despite them saying that they are opposed to the third runway over 200 private properties and 35 commercial properties have been purchased by Land Estates in preparation for the expansion.

Biggles


Property purchases

14.05.2012 13:52

HACAN ClearSkies is fully aware of the long standing policy of purchasing property in and around our village to make the process for the building of the Heathrow third runway much easier. People are being offered prices at about 30% higher than the commercial price by a company called "London Property Development Services" which we understand is a front company for London and Blenheim Estates Ltd who are acting for the UK government. Already about 40% of the village is owned by them with people being allowed to live in their previously owned houses at low rents to encourage them not to move and leave the house empty. In the last two months three large nearby industrial building have also been purchased.

It is important to remember what will happen if the Third Runway is allowed to go ahead

A big increase of planes on the existing runways
A 6th terminal
Total flight numbers to rise to over 700,000 a year
At least 150,000 people under the new flight path
Over 1 million people disturbed by noise from Heathrow
At least 700 homes destroyed
Air Pollution set to exceed the EU legal limits
Heathrow set to become the single biggest source of CO2 in the UK

Sipson Resident, part of HACAN ClearSkies
- Homepage: www.hacan.org.uk