Earlier this week we heard that Gatwick Airport seeks to rebuild the emergency runway (northern/ standby) as a second runway*. This has obviously caused a great deal of concern for all residents of Sussex, Surrey, and Kent as well as environmentalists.
We wanted to let you know that CAGNE is strongly opposing this, but we need your support to prevent this climate disaster. We ask you to attend our protest photo shoot at 2pm on Saturday 18th September opposite NatWest on the CAGNE stall in the CARFAX Horsham, (similar events will take place in October in the east TBC) and financially as we will need to raise more than £50,000 to fight this large corporate.
Donate here www.cagne.org
A second runway would not only bring significant additional aircraft noise, but it would also bring an extra 1 million tonnes of Carbon every year on top of the pre-Covid amounts. That is equivalent to flying from London to Cape Town and back 376,000 times or charging 321 billion smartphones or making 67 million t-shirts!
Your family is doing your bit to reduce carbon so why should this corporate be allowed, when we face such a climate emergency, to continue polluting and seek to drastically increase the pollution further especially as we host COP26 as a nation?
Here are key points to raise when providing feedback to Gatwick as part of their ‘tick box’ exercise to secure a 2nd runway by the backdoor or download our suggested replies here
You don’t have to support Gatwick 2 but your silence will allow it to go ahead, so please take part*
Gatwick 2nd Runway will take annual flights to a staggering 382,000 a year (from pre-Covid 285,000) plus 40% increase of main runway. Flights paths will be subject to changes post Gatwick 2 with FASIS (modernisation of airspace that could see new areas overflown to share the noise)
Our roads and single railway line will have to endure 75.6m passengers annually (46m pre-COVID)?
What of the air quality we hear you ask? You should be aware that studies are raising concerns about the small particles that come from the airfields that have serious health effects
There is no silver bullet to an alternative fuel say aviation, set to continue burning fossil fuel
How many more houses, schools, and hospitals must be built to accommodate 18,400 new workers?
Jobs are often promised by airports seeking expansion, but never materialise – because aviation continues to seek automation instead of employment
Greener sustainable jobs are needed in green industries if we are to truly seek to reach net zero and meet councils’ promises of carbon reduction.
This £500m expansion, which is subject to a public consultation from September 9th to December 1st, followed by an application to the government for a Development Consent Order, could still see the 2nd new runway completed by 2029!
Follow the science this month, 30th, with the next virtual webinars by Sir Charles Burrell of Knepp Estate and Sussex Wildlife Trust on our natural world. Book via our website www.cagne.org.
We very much hope you will support us opposing Gatwick 2 for a greener future for all.