{"id":3816,"date":"2017-02-25T11:29:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T11:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2019-03-23T09:40:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T09:40:34","slug":"environment-select-committee-government-not-doing-enough-to-mitigate-impact-of-3rd-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=3816","title":{"rendered":"Environment Select Committee: Government not doing enough to mitigate impact of 3rd runway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The influential Environmental Audit Committee in a report <strong>(1)<\/strong> issued today has said that the Government is still not doing enough to mitigate the environmental impacts of the planned new runway at Heathrow.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Creagh MP, Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, said:\u00a0 \u201cIf the Government wants to get Heathrow expansion off the ground it needs to show that a third runway can be built and run without exceeding legal limits on air pollution or breaching our carbon budgets.\u201d\u00a0 The report also found that the measures to tackle noise lacked ambition.<\/p>\n<p>John Stewart, the chair of HACAN, the campaign group which opposes Heathrow expansion, said, \u201cThe Committee is saying in no uncertain terms that both the Government and Heathrow Airport have got to up their game big-time if they are to have any chance of getting a third runway.\u00a0 They have got to prove they can deliver on noise, climate and air pollution, not just say they can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report comes out just weeks after the Government launched a public consultation on a third runway at Heathrow.\u00a0 The consultation ends on 25<sup>th<\/sup> May.\u00a0 Later this year or early next year MPs are expected to be asked to vote on the runway<strong>.\u00a0 <\/strong>Only if they vote in favour will a third runway become Government policy and Heathrow will be able to draw up detailed plans for it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(1).<\/strong> The report:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201617\/cmselect\/cmenvaud\/840\/84002.htm\">https:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201617\/cmselect\/cmenvaud\/840\/84002.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The influential Environmental Audit Committee in a report (1) issued today has said that the Government is still not doing enough to mitigate the environmental impacts of the planned new runway at Heathrow. Mary Creagh MP, Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, said:\u00a0 \u201cIf the Government wants to get Heathrow expansion off the ground it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=3816\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Environment Select Committee: Government not doing enough to mitigate impact of 3rd runway&#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":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816"}],"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=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4983,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions\/4983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}