News: Birmingham Airport defends pollution claims
Flights > News > # 710 (13/03/2006)
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Birmingham International Airport (BIA) has dismissed a report which implies dangerous levels of toxic gas have been detected at the airport.
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) gathered evidence for their report by taking samples beside a stretch of the M42 close to BIA. The CSP then linked their findings with the airport, despite the M42 being one of the busiest motorways in Britain and only 10% of its traffic being related to the airport. BIA has had a monitoring site on the airfield since 1995, which is overseen by both Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, and the City of Birmingham Council. During that time no exceedences of toxic gas levels have ever been recorded.
John Morris, head of community affairs at BIA, said:
"I am no Scientist, yet even I can see that to rely on an off-site survey when better data are available, is likely to produce erroneous and inaccurate results.Using a survey station plonked on top of the M42, when we have an independently-verified station on site, is going to give misleading results so far as the airport activity is concerned.” Morris added: "I would imagine that other airports are also incensed - the report puts Exeter, with 671,000 passengers a year, in the same league as Manchester, with 20 Million passengers a year. Clearly something is a bit iffy about their report!"
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