'Airports fail air pollution test'

The report I saw said that Sandown on the Isle of Wight was the only airfield that had pollution levels below the EU limit.
Am I missing something or could it be because it doesnt have huge volumes of kerosene being burnt by smelly jet aircraft, and a nice blow down the channel to clear it away, and the complete lack of any vast gridlocked motorways nearby.

here here 😀

The report I saw said that Sandown on the Isle of Wight was the only airfield that had pollution levels below the EU limit.
Am I missing something or could it be because it doesnt have huge volumes of kerosene being burnt by smelly jet aircraft, and a nice blow down the channel to clear it away, and the complete lack of any vast gridlocked motorways nearby.

In the same story Sheffiled also failed! Considering it’s used for a few helicopters and the odd Cessna how does that work?? Oh hang on the M1 and Sheffield Parkway are just over the fence – lots of traffic jams every day. I agree with the guy from BHX – These findings are a load of tosh!

Just read this off the BBC website…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4798978.stm

Not surprising really, the amount of traffic we have nowadays :rolleyes:
Well done to LBA 😀 and also Luton, stayed within the EU guidelines 😀

Probably just LBA’s infamous crosswinds blowing the stuff away before it can be measured!!

i’d buy one – on the condition that no new runways would be built on it.!

😀 me too but I don’t think it would go down to well!

i’d buy one – on the condition that no new runways would be built on it.!

No surprises as to who tops the table. But if you are a sufferer of bronchitis and emphysema,

It’s not exactly easy to sell a house near an airport… 😀

No surprises as to who tops the table. But if you are a sufferer of bronchitis and emphysema, for example, you just don’t live near an airport – it’s common sense.

If they really are concerned, they should get some of the bloody traffic off the roads and fill up aeroplanes.
that’s my own opinion: no doubt someone will disagree.

Seems BHX have dismissed the report….

Great to see BHX retaliate 😀
I too visited the on-site station whilst on work experiance there and they didn’t seem to have any concern whatsoever :rolleyes:

Always good to see a robust defence of the truth 😀

Seems BHX have dismissed the report….

Birmingham International Airport (BIA) has today dismissed a report by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, which implies that Dangerous levels of toxic gas have been detected at BIA, as misleading.

Despite the Airport having an on-site monitoring station, the results from which are independently verified, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy chose to use NO2 data gathered by the side of the M42, and then bizarrely attempted to link the results with Birmingham International Airport. Over 90% of the traffic on the M42 is not related to BIA

Determined to meet and improve on all statutory requirements, BIA has, since 1995, stationed a monitoring site on the airfield, which is overseen by both Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, and the City of Birmingham Council. No exceedences of NO2 have ever been recorded.

John Morris, Head of Corporate & Community Affairs at BIA said, “I am no Scientist, yet even I can see that to rely on an off-site survey when better data are available, is likely to produce erroneous and inaccurate results. Using a survey station plonked on top of the M42, when we have an independently-verified station on site, is going to give misleading results so far as the airport activity is concerned. Over 90% of the traffic on the M42 is not airport-related.

“I would imagine that other airports are also incensed – the report puts Exeter, with 671,000 passengers a year, in the same league as Manchester, with 20 Million passengers a year. Clearly something is a bit iffy about their report!”

Click here to view BIA’s Environment & Community reports.

Must say I really like the way it’s put :D.

Plymouth City 5

I am suprised Plymouth is Higher then the likes of LBA and LTN!!!!