Aviation White Paper Disaster

Last week we looked at the shocking discovery that the EIA’s International Energy Outlook 2001 was completely wrong in it’s analysis of some major oil provinces, worrying since it seems some people, even governments, actually believe these guys know what they are talking about and use their forecasts to develop policy. Now it’s time to look at another major report from a government agency.

In Dec 2003 the UK’s Department of Transport published their aviation white paper, The Future of Air Transport. It claims to “set out a strategic framework for the development of airport capacity in the United Kingdom over the next 30 years, against the wider context of the air transport sector.”

..The current position of justifying airport expansion of the basis of cheap oil is indefensible.

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