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Boris Island critics to demonstrate outside City Hall

May 9, 2012 by Martin Hoscik

A poster launched by opponents to the Mayor's airport scheme
Opponents to Boris Johnson’s proposed new airport in the Thames Estuary are to demonstrate outside City Hall on Friday morning.

The Mayor has championed the scheme in the face of opposition from local politicians and environmental campaigners and despite the Estuary being beyond London’s borders and City Hall having no power to construct airports

Campaigners from No Estuary Airport, the Campaign against Climate Change and AirportWatch will be joined at their protest by London Assembly members Jenny Jones, Caroline Pidgeon and Murad Qureshi.

Phil Thornhill from the Campaign against Climate Change said: “There is at the moment no way of sustaining air travel on a large scale without precipitating a potentially catastrophically high level of climate destabilising emissions which will wreck the future for everyone.

“Boris Island is not the answer. We need to think more deeply and imaginatively on how we organise transport systems for the future that are truly sustainable.”   

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