Say no to Boris Island!(not sure why? have a gander at these GREAT cartoons)
Date: Friday 11th May 2012
Time: 9:30am – 10:30am
Location: City Hall, 110 Queen’s Walk, nearest tube London Bridge
Boris Johnson’s plans for an airport in the Thames Estuary spell disaster for our climate. 150 million passengers per year would use the airport, increasing our emissions at alarming rate – we are struggling as it is to meet the weak climate target of reducing our emissions by 80% by 2050, the introduction of new airport will only further hinder our attempts to achieve it.As if the climate implications are not enough the location of his proposed airport and its cost, £50 billion, are mind boggling. The location would mean the disruption of a fragile ecosystem, that exists in the estuary, including endangering protected species of birds. As well as being in the heart of the convergence of four existing major flight paths used for arrivals and departures, leading to even more congestion in the skies and higher CO2 emissions as planes spend more time circling in the air waiting to land. Also the proposed site is very near to the sunken SS Richard Montgomery, a munitions ship which contains enough unexploded material to send a metre-high tidal wave hurtling towards the banks of the River Thames.We cannot allow Boris to proceed with this hugely damaging vanity project – the cost of Boris Island is just too great.
So come and join us to tell the newly re-elected mayor that just because he’s back in office does not mean we’ll let him slip this past us!
Speakers are to be confirmed and will be listed here shortly.
This event is supported by: No Estuary Airport, AirportWatch, and Campaign against Climate Change.
