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Hoon backs Stansted expansion

Transport secretary Geoff Hoon has backed an expansion of Stansted airport. It is Mr Hoon’s first move since Gordon Brown’s Cabinet reshuffle moved him over to the Department for Transport. The decision, which will increase the number of flights from 241,000 to 264,000 a year, has provoked anger from environmental campaigners. BAA’s attempts to build… Read more »

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Government opposes aviation in renewables target
Govt wants aviation excluded from renewables target

Environmentalists have reacted with outrage after it emerged the government wants aviation to be excluded from an EU-wide renewables commitment. The government has admitted it does not approve of aircraft being subject to the EU’s target of taking 20 per cent of all energy from renewable sources by 2020 because it believes the sector would… Read more »