Britain's Court of Appeal has ruled the government's plan to expand Heathrow airport illegal on environmental grounds. In 2018 we predicted that pollution and environmental rules would obstruct the third runway
ON JANUARY 10th 1946 the cabinet approved plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport, west of London. Some 72 years later, and after more than a dozen commissions, reports and white papers on where to put it, the third runway remains unbuilt. The project moved a step closer on June 25th, when Parliament voted by 415 to 119 to build a new runway to the north-west of Heathrow. But a big problem could delay it still further: air pollution.
The first issue is carbon emissions. Britain has a target to cut these by 80% from 1990 levels by 2050. To be on course to meet this goal, the Committee on Climate Change, an independent advisory body, says that Britain’s aviation sector needs to cap its emissions at 37.5m tonnes of the gas a year. But with an expanded Heathrow, it could produce over 40m by the 2030s. And the north-western site for the new runway will produce more carbon emissions than two alternative sites that were considered.
The airport has been slashing its own emissions, for instance by charging gassier planes more to land. But it is not on the airport site itself but at nearby major roads that EU limits are being broken, by people driving to and from it. Heathrow wants to raise the share of its passengers using public transport from 39% to 50% by 2030, by using congestion charging on local roads. But the airport lacks the power to impose such a scheme.
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