Energy Secretary Ed Miliband says any airport expansion, including this key Heathrow project, ‘won’t go ahead’ if it doesn’t meet ‘legally-binding limits on UK emissions.’
Media is reporting a cabinet rift on the plans to expand Heathrow.
Reeves has supported the runway project and its potential economic benefit ‘trumps other things” including the Net Zero targets.
The Chancellor is expected to approve the plans which have been mooted at various stages for the past two decades.
“Any aviation expansion must be justified within carbon budgets, and if it can’t be justified, it won’t go ahead,” Miliband told a parliamentary environment committee.
Miliband is spearheading efforts to decarbonise by 2030.
Impact plans reveal a third runway would increase the number of annual flights at Heathrow to 720,000, up from a current 480,000.
Miliband told committee MPs: “I just want to provide this element of reassurance to you, which is 100% any aviation expansion must be justified within carbon budgets.”
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