In Dutch media we see a large stream of negative articles concerning Schiphol Airport. Politicians are not amused. State Secretary Sharon Dijksma of Infrastructure and Environment is having the environmental impact assessment (MER) of Schiphol Airport re-examined; read the article on nltimes. A leading newspaper opens today with: ‘GeSchiphold’ means ‘being Schipholed’: a phrase […]
The ICAO plan for aviation biofuels targets was rejected by 25 member countries, reported Transport + Environment on October 14. Earlier T+E stated that ICAO’s ‘green fuel’ plan is a Trojan horse for palm oil. ‘Aviation is responsible for 5% of man-made climate change; the sector currently emits around 2.3% of annual global CO2 emissions. […]
Andrew Murphy from T+E, with who UECNA cooperates closely on aviation issues, reports a positive outcome on the aviation ETS vote in the EU Parliament today. ‘This is a big boost for Europe’s right to regulate its aviation emissions, and so opens the doors to a lot more.’ To summarise the highlights: An annually declining […]
The aviation sector is talking about ‘Monthly Records!’, ‘Milestones’ and ‘Celebrations’. We are not so happy…
An administrative court refused the claim of the town Mainz, Germany, against aircraft noise from Frankfurt Airport. ‘This town has not the right to claim’, the Hessische Verwaltungsgerichtshof explained, ‘because they are too far away to be accepted in a public inquiry against the airport expansion of Frankfurt.’ Mainz is 25 kilometers flying from the […]
The Aviation Environment Federation published a news item on Heathrow’s third runway:
4.2% More flights in Europe during the first half of 2017 compared with the same period last year and that’s at the high end of the forecast. For July an increase of 5.2% is expected. Those figures come from Industry Monitor, the Eurocontrol bulletin on air transport trends. Amsterdam Schiphol remains the busiest European airport […]
HACAN – the Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise – has today released 12 videos it shot where people tell how aircraft noise disturbs them, some over 20 miles from Heathrow. You can click on a map and hear the people tell their stories. They are deliberately released now in advance of the […]
The Brussels government and several municipalities of the capital, and with them their residents, won their case against Brussels Airport: the judge supports the complainants. This means that no more night flights over Brussels are allowed on the Ring and Canal routes, and that the operation of the landings on runway 01 must be ended. […]
According to the law on the protection of aircraft noise from 2007, the German federal government issued the annual report 2017 for the parliament. In particular, noise protection values are evaluated, taking into account developments in noise research and aeronautics. The federal government intends to go beyond this legal mandate: it wants to include a […]