Greenpeace Buys Land Designated for Third Heathrow Runway

[Matt Molnar]

Protesters buy up Heathrow land (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7825169.stm)
Page last updated at 00:14 GMT, Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Land earmarked for the construction of Heathrow's third runway has been bought by anti-expansion protesters.

Land the size of a football pitch near Sipson village - which would lose hundreds of homes in the expansion - was bought by a Greenpeace coalition.

They have pledged not to sell the land to the government or BAA if the airport expansion gets the go-ahead. [Full Article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7825169.stm)]

[Jetinder]

Now that is very clever thinking by the tree huggers, with this in place not sure how the 3rd runway at LHR could be built.

[ch2tdriver]

I don't know how things work in the UK, but if they tried that here on Long Island...say for JFK and ISP etc... they'd never be able to afford the taxes on the land! They'd go broke!Even if they could, think of how many whales are gonna be lost as there is less money for boats to go up against the Japanese trawlers. :borat:

Pete

[Matt Molnar]

Isn't there eminent domain law in England? If someone tried that here the government could seize the land.

[Jetinder]

Isn't there eminent domain law in England? If someone tried that here the government could seize the land.

Its called a compulsory purchase order, since my last post i saw BBC news and a lawyer said if BAA (The firm who owns LHR) wanted to purchase the land they could force the owners to sell them the land and there is nothing the tree huggers could do to stop that.

[Alessio]

The only thing Greenpeace can achieve is to delay the construction.