Close Bristol Airport Permanently

bristol | transport | opinion/analysis Saturday January 06, 2007 13:28 by Camper

BIA should be closed immediately (and permanently) on the grounds of climate safety and its management arrested.

The management of Bristol International Airport clearly could not organise a piss up in a brewery. Their latest crime against people and planet is to resurface the runways in an 'extra slippery' material that encourages planes to crash. They have also failed to cut the usual 'drainage groves' in the runway for rain water. The result is total chaos at the airport today for passengers and the utter humiliation of a management team that should be fired immediately. The national media is making it a headline news story today, as most airlines are now refusing to fly in and out of Bristol Airport. However this disaster raises a more urgent and important question: As most flights in and out of BIA are taken by the rich to go on frivolous holidays to their second homes - how can we even allow this toxic carbon factory to stay open - in the present global climate emergency? I believe the incompetent carbon criminals who run BIA should be arrested today and charged with destroying the earth and the airport should be closed permanently, on the grounds of climate safety.

Instead of a campaign to 'Stop Bristol Airport Expansion', how about a campaign to close down Bristol International Airport - permanently and immediately? George Mombiot irritates allot of people but I think he got it right when he wrote:



"Flying kills. We all know it, and we all do it. And we won’t stop doing it until the government reverses its policy and starts closing the runways."



http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2006/02/28/we-are-all-killers/