Orly Airport, one of the two big airports serving Paris, is to extract geothermal energy from deep underground to slash its heating bills, the facility's owners said. Two shafts each 1,700 metres (one mile) deep will be drilled on the airport's perimeter to access a water table warmed by heat emanating from the Earth's hot core.
 A new campaign to fight the expansion of Birmingham International Airport (BIA) was launched today by a partnership of environmental activists and local residents.
George Monbiot writes about the BAA's legal response to the Camp for Climate Change Action that is to happen between August 14 & 21 in the London Heathrow environs. What was a protest for climate change, is taking on a new life as the right to protest is being legislated against.
The ban on next week's Heathrow demonstration will not deter us. It will only boost the profile and raise the stakes. (Article by George Monbiot.)
