New Civil Engineer - Catherine Kennedy
Construction of Heathrow Airport’s third runway is not guaranteed despite yesterday’s court ruling which lifted the ban on the expansion plan.
Environmental group Friends of the Earth – which challenged the third runway plan– said that expansion is still “far from certain”, while rival expansion bidder Heathrow Hub maintains that the cost of the third runway remains prohibitive.
The expansion was blocked by the Court of Appeal in February on the grounds that it failed to take into account climate change commitments under the 2016 Paris Agreement...read here
