A 3^rd runway for the London Heathrow Airport, which has been one of the more controversial expansions in history, has gained the support of the government. Plans for the runway have received a go ahead; however, there are restrictions for the plans that are designed for protecting the environment by controlling pollution and noise, as well as to make the green protesters happy.

The government’s decision has been welcomed with legal challenges, coming from environmentalists like Greenpeace, of whom have said that the new runway can’t and won’t be built. If Brown gives the plans a green light, then it will shred his environmental credibility, they continued, and the expansion will make the London Heathrow Airport the single largest emitter of carbon dioxide in Britain. Greenpeace also added that they will fight the expansion the whole way, because millions of peoples’ lives depend on everyone cutting their emission of carbon dioxide.

The new runway is set to be completed over 5 years, and a village is to be demolished in order to make room for more capacity at the airport. This move has been welcomed by a lot of those who work at the airport, business and union leaders, airline officials, and even parliamentary officials. Serge Lourie, the leader of Richmond Council, said that air traffic for the London Heathrow Airport is going to increase by about 33% whether they construct the new runway or not. There are already 480,000 flights operating in and out of the airport every day.

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