New Eurostar terminal opens in London to confetti and balloons
It was a small action that happened in London this morning, but in the interests of the entente cordial I thought it was worth a mention, not least because the title for the press release chosen by our media officer made me laugh: 'Greenpeace says 'yes' to something shocker'.
The shiny new rail terminal at St Pancras station opened today to much fanfare, including balloons and biodegradable confetti from the climbers hanging a banner from the ramparts. Not only is it the new home of Eurostar, it sees the start of high-speed services between our parochial little island and the rest of the world. Well, Paris and Brussels but it's a start.
There is, however, a caveat. While everyone is basking in the glory of this technological and architectural achievement, we need to remember that our government is still hell-bent on building a new runway at Heathrow airport, making a nonsense of any attempts to reduce climate change emissions.
Opinion polls regularly put figures of over 60 per cent on the number of UK people opposed to further airport expansion (a recent one pushed it as high as 70 per cent), so to visualise that opposition, we've launched the Stop Heathrow Expansion video wall. If you're incandescent with rage about the unfettered growth of aviation, feel free to add your own short video.
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when i looked to the website for a needed break, i was amazed to my discovery; reporters are advertising islands less travelled than anywhere ours eyes have and haven't seen.....and to experience our planet change dramatically in which we all know "our planet is dying". Why do we not want to protect this planet? For we are all the same; "but who says" who has more and who has less. Is it we that determine which countries we will be born and under whatever living cicumstances? I don't really think so,is the real question! Yet back to the Advertising. What do we really need to do to save the Earth? Advertise more destruction to the eco systems of the world or do we pool our resources as a worldly system and stop the fighting. Wow concerned reader
Posted by: kristine storey | November 14, 2007 5:20 PM