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HACAN, the Heathrow Association for Control of Aircraft Noise, published its July Newsletter.   [26/06/2011]

HACAN, the Heathrow Association for Control of Aircraft Noise, published its July Newsletter.

HACAN reports on the Aviation Scoping document published in March 2011 in which the government confirms the decision to rule out expansion at Heathrow and new runways at Gatwick and Stansted. Transport Secretary Philip Hammond comments “in maintaining its support for new runways – particularly at Heathrow – in the face of the local environmental impacts and mounting evidence of aviation’s growing contribution towards climate change, the previous government got the balance wrong.”