How does my right hon. Friend justify offering the airline industry a virtual exemption from the disciplines that will apply to almost all other industrial sectors? According to projections, by 2050 the rise in aircraft emissions is expected to negate the cuts made in all other industrial sectors. Surely this cuckoo-in-the-nest protection of one highly polluting industry is simply no longer tenable?
UK Low Carbon Transition Plan
Proceeding contribution from
Michael Meacher
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 15 July 2009.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on UK Low Carbon Transition Plan.
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