East Midlands named world's more environmentally friendly airport
13.10.07
East Midlands Airport has been named the most environmentally friendly airport in the world. The airport has won the World Travel Award for its approach to the environment, and was praised for its aim of becoming carbon neutral by 2012. However, environmental campaigners say if it is to deserve the award, it must not expand further.
The airport picked up the Eco Friendly Airport award, voted for by more than 165,000 travel agencies and professionals in more than 200 countries worldwide. It recently announced, plans to install wind turbines on site to generate 10% of its electricity.
An airport spokesman said it was proud of its environmental achievements. But the Plane Stupid climate change campaign group said that the CO2 produced by the airport was the same as the emissions generated by the African country of Mali.
A spokesman for the group said: 'We are looking at an aviation industry that is set to expand but everyone knows we have got to cut back on air travel. We blame the aviation industry and the airports - they market aggressively and they get incentives. We have to cut our CO2 emissions and cut them radically.'
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