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Posted by: Green Fingers Monday 19th March 2007, 3:45pm
Last edited 19/03/2007 3:45pm by Green Fingers

Green skies?

Noted in the Sunday papers this weekend. Low-cost airline Easyjet and the airports operator BAA are heading a new group to lobby against what they believe are unfair taxes on the aviation industry. They meet for the first time on March 27th, with forty to fifty organisations expect to join. The industry wants to counter claims about its impact on climate change. Airlines have pointed out that the proceeds from the tax (Air Passenger Duty) have not been earmarked to invest in green energy projects.

Despite ringing round the bosses of British airlines to attend a photoshoot at Defra's offices to launch the Carbon Offsetting Scheme, no one from the industry turned up. One chief executive was amazed to even be invited as he had previously written to ministers outlining his objections to APD, which the Government presented as a "green tax even though its not directly linked to emissions."

Bit by bit, as more questions are being asked about these new policies / taxes, are the facts claimed on which they are based, being called into question.

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