Category Archives: Manchester Airport

55% owned by Manchester City Council

Brilliant new report on “#Manchester Airport versus the Carbon Budget”

Posted on December 2, 2021 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Climate Emergency Manchester (1) has released a brilliant 15 page report pointing out that an expanding airport (Manchester City Council owns 35.5%, btw) is not compatible with reaching the emissions reductions we need to. You can read their blog post … Continue reading →

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#Manchester annual emissions reduction target was 13.5%. Achievement? …. 2.5%

Posted on July 8, 2019 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Manchester is missing its emissions reductions targets by an enormous margin. The latest report from the Manchester Climate Change “Agency” was released yesterday, at a two hour “conference.”  One of the authors of the report (full disclosure – Dr Joe … Continue reading →

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The mayor’s green summit – what to expect in the coming weeks, months, years. #Manchester #climate

Posted on February 15, 2018 by manchesterclimatemonthly

In his  March 2017 manifesto for the Mayoral election, Andy Burnham promised to hold an environmental summit ‘within a year’ of being elected.  Originally scheduled for late 2017, there was “slippage” and the summit is now going to happen in … Continue reading →

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#Manchester City Council buying flights to Birmingham, London, Southampton etc

Posted on September 26, 2016 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Manchester City Council has paid for  almost 500 plane journeys in the last two years, including to such hard to get to locations as Birmingham, London, Southampton, Exeter and Norwich.  And, along with global temperatures and carbon dioxide concentrations, The … Continue reading →

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#Manchester Airport misses #climate target, comically inept spin ensues. Write to your councillor #democracy

Posted on September 28, 2015 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Back in the heady Big Promise days of 2009/2010, some bright spark came up with the idea that the ground operations of Manchester Airport (lighting, power for the x-ray machines etc but not the actions of the big metal birds … Continue reading →

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#Manchester a Cretin Future – #climate conference epic fail…

Posted on July 8, 2015 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Last year the Steering Group refused to release its annual report before the agm. The year before that… but look, the Steering Group is a contemptible joke. Everybody except, it seems, themselves, knows this. Here is a blog post from … Continue reading →

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#Manchester Council proclaims itself transparent. Want to know how “Clean City” money is spent? You gotta use FoIA.

Posted on July 15, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Update: The Council has got even more Airport Windfall money this year. Manchester City Council bleats loud and long about openness and transparency. In early June bureaucrats assured elected members they would explain the “Clean and Green Fund” better. A … Continue reading →

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#Manchester councillors call for more gully cleaning machines. #floods and stuff…

Posted on July 10, 2014 by manchesterclimatemonthly

A group of councillors has called for some of the £14.5m windfall received by Manchester City Council from Manchester Airport to be spent on the “purchase or lease” of an additional gully cleaning wagon. The “Task and Finish” group, chaired … Continue reading →

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Richard Leese on how #Airport City will secure the prosperity of #Manchester. Uh-huh

Posted on November 27, 2013 by manchesterclimatemonthly

From Our Glorious Leader’s blog Where in the World Last week Manchester Airport Group announced that DHL had signed up as the first tenant in Airport City, the first of what I expect to be many such announcements. The key … Continue reading →

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Polar Bear Facepalm: #Manchester Airport gets more destinations

Posted on November 26, 2013 by manchesterclimatemonthly
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