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Heathrow

Posted: 10 Nov 2005, 21:28
by biffvernon
Reuters:
BAA said on Thursday it hoped to demolish the existing 50-year-old Terminal 2 and office buildings and develop a modern facility capable of handling up to 30 million passengers.
That's another billion pounds allocated to the Great White Elephant then.

Posted: 10 Nov 2005, 22:11
by clv101
Yeah... there are lots of crazy things in the world but I think the single craziest is the programme of airport expansion the government seems set on.

Posted: 28 Feb 2006, 14:07
by fishertrop
For the sake of the world's poor, we must keep the wealthy at home
George Monbiot
Tuesday February 28, 2006
The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Co ... 28,00.html
This is now broadly understood by almost everyone I meet. But it has had no impact whatever on their behaviour. When I challenge my friends about their planned weekend in Rome or their holiday in Florida, they respond with a strange, distant smile and avert their eyes. They just want to enjoy themselves. Who am I to spoil their fun? The moral dissonance is deafening.