		<div class="wpcnt">
			<div class="wpa">
				<span class="wpa-about">Advertisements</span>
				<div class="u top_amp">
							<amp-ad width="300" height="265"
		 type="pubmine"
		 data-siteid="111265417"
		 data-section="1">
		</amp-ad>
				</div>
			</div>
		</div><p>Extinction Rebellion has threatened to shut down Heathrow Airport for 10 days using drones if the Government does not cancel a planned expansion.</p>
<p>The environmental group, which brought London to a standstill for two weeks in April, said it will first stage a one-day protest on June 18.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true">
<p lang="en" dir="ltr">PRESS RELEASE &#8211; The UK Government must cancel all Heathrow expansion. On June 18, we plan to carry out nonviolent direct action to close the airport for the day, to create a “pause” in recognition of the genocidal impact of high carbon activities.<a href="https://t.co/MJvdre8dGd">https://t.co/MJvdre8dGd</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Extinction Rebellion (@ExtinctionR) <a href="https://twitter.com/ExtinctionR/status/1134279189044039680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 31, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<p>It said if plans to expand Heathrow are not immediately scrapped the 10-day demonstration will begin on July 1.</p>
<p>Holidaymakers were being given advance notice to “change travel plans”, the group added.</p>
<p>It is understood the plans to use drones are contained in a document shared between members of the group.</p>
<p><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2.42406891.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-132939" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2.42406891.jpg" alt="Extinction Rebellion, Environment" width="1280" height="853" data-wp-pid="132939" /></a></p>
<p>A statement on its website said: <em>“Extinction Rebellion demands the Government begins to act on its declaration of a Climate and Environment Emergency by cancelling all Heathrow expansion.</em></p>
<p><em>“On June 18, we plan to carry out nonviolent direct action to ensure Heathrow Authorities close the airport for the day, to create a ‘pause’ in recognition of the genocidal impact of high carbon activities, such as flying, upon the natural world.</em></p>
<p><em>“If the Government does not cancel all Heathrow expansion, Extinction Rebellion will act to shut the airport down for up to 10 days from July 1.</em></p>
<p><em>“Extinction Rebellion is in the consultancy stage with its members on the proposed action.”</em></p>
<p>Demonstrators also protested at Heathrow during the last round of protests in April but did not cause disruption to flights.</p>
<p>A small group of mostly teenage activists briefly unfurled a banner near a tunnel which leads to Terminals 2 and 3 as several police officers watched on.</p>
<p>The statement, published on Friday, added: <em>“This is not about targeting the public, but holding the Government to their duty to take leadership on the climate and ecological emergency.</em></p>
<p><em>“The addition of the planned third runway would make Heathrow the single biggest carbon emitter in the UK – to expand the airport at this critical point in history would be madness.</em></p>
<p><em>“We understand the action will cause disruption to a great number of holidaymakers, however we believe that it is necessary given the prospect of far greater disruption caused by ecological and societal collapse, if we don’t act now.”</em></p>
			<div style="padding-bottom:15px;" class="wordads-tag" data-slot-type="belowpost">
				<div id="atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ce4bb12112f">
					<script type="text/javascript">
						window.getAdSnippetCallback = function () {
							if ( false === ( window.isWatlV1 ?? false ) ) {
								// Use Aditude scripts.
								window.tudeMappings = window.tudeMappings || [];
								window.tudeMappings.push( {
									divId: 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ce4bb12112f',
									format: 'belowpost',
								} );
							}
						}

						if ( document.readyState === 'loading' ) {
							document.addEventListener( 'DOMContentLoaded', window.getAdSnippetCallback );
						} else {
							window.getAdSnippetCallback();
						}
					</script>
				</div>
			</div>
Discover more from London Glossy Post
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
