Via Medway Messenger ...new research from the British Trust for Ornithology says a huge area would be needed to re-home the 300,000 birds affected by building the huge airport. The report says: Coastal wetland habitat loss of this type has been widely demonstrated to have significant impacts on the bird populations that the habitat supports. We can therefore be confident that habitat loss due to airport development would have significant negative impacts on the bird population that depend on the areas lost. MP for Gillingham and Rainham, Rehman Chishti, said: This report clearly shows the high risks, uncertainty and costs of putting an airport into an area which is one of the most important for waterbirds in the UK. It would decimate these important environmental areas with any mitigation or compensation measures requiring vast areas of land to be made available at enormous cost. This is another showstopper report demonstrating why this absurd scheme should never be allowed to go ahead. Cllr Rodney Chambers, leader of Medway council, dubbed the latest report another stumbling block in these Mickey Mouse plans. He said creating a new habitat away from the Medway Estuary is likely to lead to a higher death rate among the birds, would take years to establish and might not even be legal. Keep saying No estuary airport! The evidence is overwhelming! Rule it out! Rule it out!
Posted on: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:27:11 +0000