The Green Files > Climate campaigners bring peaceful protest to Heathrow
[Greenpeace UK RSS] This is about stabilising the number of flights from UK airports, which is why we're calling for the government to stop all plans for airport expansion, for a ban on domestic flights, for a cap on long haul flights and for a transfer of the £9 billion subsidies the aviation industry gets over to rail, to make train travel better and cheaper (at the moment, per person, Britons emit more from flying than any other people on the planet...).
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[Greenpeace UK RSS] Climate campaigners bring protest to Heathrow: and the billions channeled to aviation in tax breaks to instead be ploughed into the UK’s railway network, to increase capacity and make trains cheaper and more accessible, reducing demand for domestic and short-haul flights.
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