{"id":2000,"date":"2014-08-13T09:50:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T09:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2014-08-13T09:50:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T09:50:37","slug":"hacan-calls-for-heathrow-airport-to-come-clean-on-its-populus-polls-after-the-polling-companys-methods-are-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=2000","title":{"rendered":"HACAN calls for Heathrow Airport to come clean on its Populus polls after the polling company\u2019s methods are exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">HACAN \u00a0has called on HeathrowAirport to come clean about its surveys carried out by its favourite pollster Populus following the revelations this week about the methods Populus used in a recent survey on fracking.<b> \u00a0<\/b>The \u00a0fracking poll published on Monday, carried out for UK Onshore Oil and Gas (UKOOG), was described by a polling expert as \u2018one of the most misleading poll findings I\u2019ve ever seen\u2019.<b>\u00a0 <\/b>And today it has been revealed that the UKOOG findings have been flatly contradicted by a Government survey found which only 25% of people supported fracking compared to the Populus poll which claimed 57% support. Heathrow has relied on Populus polls, conducted over the phone, to back its claims there is growing support for a third runway at the airport. Heathrow claimed, on the basis of a Populus poll, that there was more support now for a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> runway than when it was proposed by the last Labour Government.\u00a0 The poll claimed to show 48% were in favour of a third runway while 34% opposed results which were flatly contradicted by referenda and surveys carried out by Hillingdon, Richmond and Hounslow local authorities which found around 72% of residents opposed a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> runway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<b>See HACAN\u00a0 blog for more details:<\/b> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/blog\/?p=316\">http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/blog\/?p=316<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HACAN \u00a0has called on HeathrowAirport to come clean about its surveys carried out by its favourite pollster Populus following the revelations this week about the methods Populus used in a recent survey on fracking. \u00a0The \u00a0fracking poll published on Monday, carried out for UK Onshore Oil and Gas (UKOOG), was described by a polling expert &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=2000\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HACAN calls for Heathrow Airport to come clean on its Populus polls after the polling company\u2019s methods are exposed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000"}],"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=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}