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Any announcement regarding the expansion or establishment of airports inevitably results in a jump in real estate prices in the region, and correspondingly in the net worth of local land and real estate owners.
Despite these economic benefits, there is also a very significant downside. Airports give rise, directly and indirectly, to a host of environmental problems, capable of upsetting the lives of nearby residents and of degrading the surrounding ecosystems. These disturbances arise because of various factors, namely (a) the environmental and social degradation caused by large quantities of fuel emission, including greenhouse gases from aircraft and increased motor traffic, (b) the sharp increases in levels of noise with their debilitating effect upon the lives of nearby residents, (c) the gobbling up of large tracts of land and destruction of local wildlife, habitat and heritage, (d) local water pollution caused mostly by the use of deicing chemicals in airports and (e) the generation of large amounts of waste, which need to be safely disposed. While some of these problems are common to other large infrastructural projects, maximum devastation, in the case of airports, is caused by the constant air, water and noise pollution, which not only continues without let up but increases with every passing year. Some of these environmental changes even have the potential to cause serious psychological and health problems. Ed Ayres, in an article in World Watch (2001) states that studies have revealed that (a) rates of cancer, asthma, and mortality are sharply higher for people living near some airports, and (b) that children near airports have higher levels of blood pressure, stress hormones, and difficulty with learning to read.
Manchester Airport is a privately run airport and one of the largest in the UK. It is the busiest airport outside of London and services most of the North West region. While the airport currently handles approximately 22 million passengers every year, aviation experts expect airport passenger traffic to cross 40 million by 2015. The airport faced strong opposition from environmentalists between 1997 and 1999, when its second runway came up on 100 acres of greenbelt land. Approved expansion plans now seek to utilize another 300 acres of agricultural land to meet the expected increases in traffic. The official website of the Manchester Airport Group (MAG) and its published Vision for Sustainability estimate the total economic impact of the group at around 1.7 billion GBP (in 1998), out of which 585 million GBP stayed in the North West region.
Around 85,000 jobs nationally depend on the Airport with 33,000 in the North West.

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