The graphic (website) version of this newsletter can be accessed at:
http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/newsletter409.htm
Quote of the Week: "The EU emissions trading scheme is better than
nothing,
but it will have a tiny impact on aviation emissions, while giving the
illusion that the issue is being addressed." Friends of the Earth aviation
campaigner, Richard Dyer, in a Dec. 20th news story
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Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter
#409.........................................................................December
31, 2006 Past newsletters can be accessed at:
http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/ACNewsmenu.htm
The PASSUR air****t
flight
tracking system at many major U.S. air****ts
http://www.passur.com/sites.htm
(you must have Java installed to view it). If you want to get the
newsletter
sent to you every week, sign up to AviationWatch. Bill Mulcahy
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Criticize EU's Aviation Pollution Reduction Plan!!!
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As Bill Sees It: (Editorial) Using New Technology To Fight Aviation
Expansion: Just as the FAA and the aviation industry uses technology to
expand their highly polluting industry on their victims so to the victims
should use technology to fight them. So this week I am starting to use
video
in the Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter. Although this is the first time
I've
put a video on the Internet, and I admit it's not that good, I do have
had
a lot of experience making videos for public access TV. Future videos will
be much better when hopefully I get over this lousy cold. I still have to
figure how better to integrate the video into the newsletter; maybe I need
a
new web site editing program. I think newsletters like mine are being
overtaken over by "blogs" where there can be more videos and interactivity
with those who read them. I fully sup****t that and think that's where the
Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter is going.
FAA Alleged To Be Listening To Delaware Complaints About Airspace
Redesign
Scheme: I saw two news articles about how the FAA is supposed to be
"listening" to the complaints of Deleware residents who are apparently
just
waking up (no pun intended) to the fact that they are about to be hit with
increased noise from the Philadelphia Air****t expansion. Of course, all
this
means is that political pressure has been brought on them probably by the
recent Democrat winning back control of congress. If residents of Delaware
county do get a reprieve it will mean some other poor politically weak,
possibly poor and/or minority, will be getting their overflights.
European Union Commission Gets Lukewarm Response To Its Aviation Emissions
Trading Plan: Environmentalists today gave a lukewarm response to European
Commission proposals to include the fast-growing aviation industry in the
EU
emissions trading system. The proposals from the European Commission,
which
are still to be endorsed by environment ministers, would see airlines come
within the carbon emissions market for the first time. But it falls far
short of the tax on airline fuel and halting air****t expansion that
campaigners are calling for. Friends of the Earth said it would have a
"tiny
impact", while the Green MEP Carline Lucas said it would give the airline
industry billions in windfall profits while actually harming the
environment. Ms Lucas, who proposed containing the aviation industry
within
its own standalone emissions scheme, rather than allowing it to trade
quotas
with other polluting industries, said: "Without limits on the number of
permits the airlines can buy up from other sectors in the emissions
trading
scheme, emissions from aviation will continue to grow at the expense of
other industries. "This is especially worrying because, as well as
emitting
CO2, airlines produce other greenhouse gases which mean their total
contribution to climate change is two to four times higher than that of
most
other industries." Editor's Note: At least the EU is addressing the
aviation pollution problem, while the U.S., led by warmongering President
Moronic Polluter, is actually pu****ng for MORE aviation pollution.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/story/0,,1976170,00.html
Jamaica Bay, N.Y. City: Concorde Devil Bird Returns To The Scene Of Its
Crimes: Approximately 100 community members joined South Queens and
Brooklyn elected officials on Friday to see the Concorde jet arrive at
Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field. The aircraft was moved by barge from the
Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in Manhattan and will be on display at
the field's Aviator S****ts and Recreation complex during the Hudson River
pier's 18 month rebuilding and the restoration of the Intrepid. The move
comes three years after the infamously noisy Concorde was permanently
grounded. Editor's Note: I don't mind the environmental atrocity killer
Concorde being displayed, as long as it's just a museum piece.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17644294&BRD=2731&PAG=461&dept_id=574908&rfi=6
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Aviation News Stories This Week
Delaware County Residents May Not Need Ear Plugs
Thu, 28 Dec '06
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=f1b649e3-57b9-4c57-9439-cda6046abe08
FAA Agrees To Listen To Noise Abatement Alternatives
Delaware County Council Chairman Andrew Reilly announced at the council's
Dec 12 meeting he had secured an agreement from Steve Kelley, an FAA
project
manager, to consider mitigation proposals in the continuing fight over
traffic rerouting in the New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania region.
The FAA has developed a rerouting plan for air traffic in the region.
Current traffic routes are all but saturated at peak times and delays are
becoming more and more common. The FAA proposal is supposed to alleviate
the
congestion and allow more flights.
The council has campaigned strongly to stop the FAA-proposed airspace
redesign because it believes the plan would route more traffic over
Delaware
County. Apparantly it reached the conclusion if you can't beat 'em, join
'em, and started developing rerouting proposals of its own.
At a recent meeting, Reilly said the council's aviation consultant,
Williams
Aviation Consultants (WAC), has recommended a departure procedure for
Philadelphia Intentional Air****t which the Reilly says he will present to
Senator Arlen Specter and Senator-elect Bob Casey in Wa****ngton DC.
WAC recommended the FAA require traffic departing Philadelphia's runway 27
remain over the river until passing 3000 feet.
Reilly told the DelcoTimes, "This is good news for Delaware County. As a
direct result of our efforts, the FAA is going to consider our
recommendations, including a recommendation to keep planes over the
Delaware
River until they reach an altitude of 3,000 feet before they can fan out
over the region."
He added his county is one of five areas the FAA is considering mitigation
proposals in the airspace redesign.
"Here, in Delaware County, we made our voices heard. We met with the
project
manager, and he agreed to consider any recommendations we had. We already
had those recommendations prepared and handed them to him that day (of the
meeting). We are still prepared to go to court over this if the FAA does
not
respond, but the fact that the FAA is considering our proposals is a step
forward," said Reilly.
The council has posted a petition on its website allowing residents to
voice
their opinion to the FAA.
FMI: www.co.delaware.pa.us, www.faa.gov
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