Category Archives: Manchester Airport

55% owned by Manchester City Council

#Manchester Evening News: “Win flights to… London” – “Going green as top priority”? #epicfail

Posted on January 8, 2013 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Seriously.

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Pre-election survey: Candidates ambivalent about the Airport

Posted on May 2, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Manchester Friends of the Earth has conducted a survey about the environmental positions of candidates standing in the May 3rd local authority elections. You can read the results here – http://www.scribd.com/doc/91350632/2012-Local-Election-Report-MFoE One thing that leaps out on an initial skim … Continue reading →

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Council Leader interviewed on Airport City, carbon literacy and “much much more”…

Posted on February 1, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Leader of Manchester City Council Richard Leese has suggested that councillors might want to get on their bikes as part of their efforts to lead by example and engage with their constituents around climate change. In a wide-ranging interview conducted … Continue reading →

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SEMMMS like old times

Posted on January 30, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Went to a Friends of the Earth meeting tonight(1). It was arranged so we could learn more about the new plans for “Airport City” (see previous MCFly story here) and the road that will – if/when it is built, at … Continue reading →

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Airport City – against and for…

Posted on January 20, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Attention Conservation Notice: The following article contains entirely predictable statements from various organisations about the virtue/vice of “Airport City.” Last week, accompanied by a certain amount of civic boosterism (always in short supply in Manchester), the £659 million “Airport City” … Continue reading →

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Off To A Flying Start (Part II): Manchester City Council & Its Record On Aviation

Posted on January 8, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

As you may have heard, MCFly finally got its hands on some dirt… sorry, data on the council’s flying habit. In a recent post, we asked our readers to guess the bill the council racked up offsetting the elected members … Continue reading →

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Poll: Guess The Council’s Flight Offset Bill!

Posted on January 5, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Finally. After days of waiting around and numerous phone calls to Manchester City Council, we have received answers to our questions about the number of flights taken by elected members from the end of 2009 to 2011. And it’s exciting … Continue reading →

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Fingers Burnt, Lessons Learnt

Posted on January 4, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly

Here at MCFly, we are in the information game. And most of the time, that information is easy to get as people are usually happy to pass on details of their latest project/event. Some information however is not so easy … Continue reading →

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Art Exhibition explores the price of aviation

Posted on December 7, 2011 by manchesterclimatemonthly

You enter a blacked-out room, large projector screens around you. You feel you are in the grounds of a farm wedged between airport runways. A full day of events happens in 15 minutes and it is very very noisy. But … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Shaping Urban Infrastructures

Posted on December 3, 2011 by manchesterclimatemonthly

How do you teach an elephant to tapdance? How do you get big slow lumbering beasts like states and city governments to make rapid and broad changes to the way they do things? These are questions posed by a bunch … Continue reading →

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