Environmental Protesters on Roof of Parliment

From the Hindu News Update Service:

"In an embarrassment to the Labour Government, a group of demonstrators on Wednesday climbed onto the roof of the Houses of Parliament and unfurled banners to protest plans to expand the Heathrow airport...a banner read: 'No Third Runway'. The protest came on the final day of the Government's consultation on expanding Heathrow airport, including to build a third runway.

One of the protesters, Richard George, 27, said: "I stood on the roof of Parliament because the democratic process had been corrupted. The aviation industry had taken full advantage of a weak Prime Minister to get the Heathrow consultation fixed."

This following a Greenpeace effort on Monday when five activists managed climbed on top of a British Airways plane to protest against expanding the airport.

"It does not even consider global warming despite everything Brown has said about the environment and despite the massive impact aviation has on the climate."

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