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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Chris_ on February 25, 2008, 05:46:45 PM
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Environmentalists climb on Heathrow jet in airport protest: officials
Four activists from environmental campaigners Greenpeace breached security at London Heathrow to stage a protest on top of a jet against the airport's planned expansion, the group said Monday.
The activists climbed on top of a British Airways Boeing 777 plane which had just landed from Manchester at around 0945 GMT and unfurled a huge banner across the tailfin reading: "Climate Emergency -- No Third Runway".
Their action came two days before the end of a government consultation on plans to expand Heathrow, notably by building a third runway, which have proved highly controversial with green campaigners and some local people.
Supporters of the scheme including airlines and business argue that it is vital to sustain London's status as a world financial centre.
One of those involved in the protest, Anna Jones, 27, said: "I am standing on this plane because our planet and the people who live on it are in danger.
"Climate change can be beaten but not by doubling the size of the world's biggest airport."
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MORE (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080225220201.ewyx2c7k&show_article=1)
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They should've taxied the jet with them up there.
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Neo-environmentalism = anti-humanity... simple as that.
BTW, yes OH... it would have been pretty damn funny if they had started taxiing the jet with the kooks on the tail.
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Gray ponytails trying to relive their glory days (or bringing their poor, stupid kids along for the ride).
Id10Ts