heathrow airport: This is not about targeting the public, but holding the Government to their duty to take leadership on the climate and ecological emergency, the group said, according to The Japan Times. Heathrow Airport said the use of drones would be a reckless action. The internal proposal, seen by Reuters, emerged against a backdrop of renewed campaigning by environmental groups who argue that expanding Heathrow would be incompatible with Britain's targets to curb greenhouse gas emissions. ; On June 18, we plan to carry out nonviolent direct action to ensure Heathrow Authorities close the airport for the day, to create a pause' in recognition of the genocidal impact of high carbon activities, such as flying, upon the natural world, Extinction Rebellion said in a statement late on Thursday. We agree with the need to act on climate change, but that requires us to work together constructively not commit serious criminal offenses just as hardworking people prepare to spend a well-earned holiday with their family and friends, an airport spokesman said in a statement on Friday. The British Parliament declared a symbolic climate emergency in response to the protests, raising hopes among campaign groups that the government will cancel the third runway as part of more ambitious climate commitments. The deployment of drones would mark a significant escalation by Extinction Rebellion, which mobilized thousands of people in a peaceful civil disobedience campaign that brought parts of central London to a standstill for 11 days in April.
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