Object
London Southend Airport and Environs Joint Area Action Plan Preferred Options
Representation ID: 6181
Received: 31/03/2009
Respondent: South East Essex Friends of the Earth
To describe the Saxon Business Park as "award winning" when it doesn't yet exist and therefore cannot have won any awards is self-evidently dishonest. Likewise, there is no way to know at this stage that the airport "will be a successful regional passenger airport".
No mention of Peak Oil is made either in the "Preferred Options" or the "Sustainability Appraisal" documents. By 2021, it is likely that oil will be considerably more expensive than it was in 2008, making aviation, which already has extremely tight margins, economically unviable. Note that globally, aviation currently has a profit margin of 1%.
To describe the Saxon Business Park as "award winning" when it doesn't yet exist and therefore cannot have won any awards is self-evidently dishonest. Likewise, there is no way to know at this stage that the airport "will be a successful regional passenger airport".
No mention of Peak Oil is made either in the "Preferred Options" or the "Sustainability Appraisal" documents. By 2021, it is likely that oil will be considerably more expensive than it was in 2008, making aviation, which already has extremely tight margins, economically unviable. Note that globally, aviation currently has a profit margin of 1%.