Campaigners want to reopen Stansted inquiry
14.05.08
A bid to put BAA back on the witness stand and cross-examine its air quality experts at a reopened Stansted Airport public inquiry has been made by campaign group Stop Stansted Expansion (SSE).
The call has been prompted after BAA said that its nitrogen oxide data, supporting its bid for 35m passengers a year on one runway at Stansted, was incorrect. The campaigners have said that they 'want the fullest chance to scrutinise new evidence'.
SSE's campaign director, Carol Barbone, said: ‘We have called for a reopening of the inquiry on the grounds that it would be wholly wrong for BAA to be rewarded for having provided erroneous information last year by being excused from cross-examination on its revised evidence.'
‘We await the Government's response on this and other matters relating to the misrepresentation of data for the last inquiry, discovered during analysis of the second runway data provided.’
It is more than seven months since the public inquiry ended. Initially a verdict from Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly and Communities and Local Government Secretary Hazel Blears was expected earlier this year. However, the air quality dispute has delayed the decision.
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