Extinction Rebellion will protest against the expansion of Bristol Airport this month. The climate action group also demands action on public transport including fair fares and public ownership.
The airport has also been targeted by environmental protesters through its Greenwash Free Bristol campaign. Through this, they challenge the activities of a company or an organisation intended to make people think it is environmentally friendly, when in fact they can be damaging.
Posting word of the protest on Twitter, the climate group shared their demands: "On Saturday 30th July, XR BRISTOL will be taking to the streets to demand: 1. STOP AIRPORT EXPANSION 2. FAIR FARES FOR EVERYONE 3. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT Gather from 10am in Queens Square."
Read more: Campaigners win little victory in Bristol Airport expansion fight
On its website, Extinction Rebellion states it supports the work of Bristol Airport Action Network, a group of volunteers who formed in 2019 to challenge the expansion of Bristol Airport. The campaign group has recently secured a small victory in trying to stop the airport's multi-million-pound expansion plans in their ongoing legal battle.
The campaigners have launched a High Court challenge to the Government's decision to allow the airport to expand with new terminal buildings, which would see the number of passengers increase from around nine million a year to 12 million. At a court hearing to set the date for the two-day appeal case, there was a dispute about where that hearing should take place.
The Airport's barristers wanted the case to be heard as part of the regular sittings of the High Court in London, but anti-airport expansion campaigners from Bristol Airport Action Network argued it should be heard in Bristol, where the people affected the most actually live.
Extinction Rebellion will gather in Queen Square on Saturday, July 30 at 10am.
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