{"id":1087,"date":"2009-07-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsite.hacan.org.uk\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2019-05-13T18:33:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:33:09","slug":"report-smacks-of-desperation-says-campaign-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"Report &#8216;Smacks of Desperation&#8217; says Campaign Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign group HACAN has challenged the findings of a report published today by the British Chamber of Commerce which claims that a third runway at Heathrow would add &pound;30 billion a year, spread over 60 years,<!--more--> to the UK economy <strong>(1)<\/strong>.  HACAN argues that this is out of step with previous reports including the Government&#8217;s own figures which found that the benefits to the economy would be &pound;5 billion over 70 years.<\/p>\n<p>HACAN has also criticised the way that the British Chamber of Commerce Report compares Heathrow with Paris, Frankfurt and other European cities.<\/p>\n<p>HACAN Chair John Stewart said, &#8220;To compare Heathrow with other cities is not to compare like with like.  The true comparison is to compare the number of passengers using all of London&#8217;s airports with the number of passengers using all of the airports at these other cities.  When that is done London remains the best-connected city in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stewart, added, &#8220;The major failing of this report that it has not factored in the environmental and social costs:  the cost of noise, pollution, climate change, community destruction, traffic congestion etc.  That makes a mockery of its figures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stewart concluded, &#8220;Overall, this report smacks of desperation.  It comes to something when a body such as the British Chamber of Commerce resorts to sensationalist claims that each year the third runway is delayed costs the country &pound;1 billion.  It is a sign that they have lost the battle for a third runway.  The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have said they would scrap it if they win the next Election.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes for Editors<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>(1)<\/strong>. The report can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishchambers.org.uk\/zones\/policy\/press-releases_1\/a-third-runway-at-heathrow-would-add-30-billion-to-uk-economy-says-new-study.html\">A third runway at Heathrow would add &pound;30 billion to UK economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>British Chambers of Commerce &#8211; London, UK<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Stewart on 0207 737 6641 or 07957385650<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign group HACAN has challenged the findings of a report published today by the British Chamber of Commerce which claims that a third runway at Heathrow would add &pound;30 billion a year, spread over 60 years,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5389,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/5389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}