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Most Of These Developments Can Also Have Adverse Effects Upon The Mental And ...

Most of these developments can also have adverse effects upon the mental and physical health of people who live in nearby areas. While airport managements in the UK are working sincerely towards sustainable development, the challenges they face in carrying out their environmental and social responsibilities, because of the enormous increase in passenger traffic, and the consequent growth in number of flights, is enormous.
Manchester Airport is the largest airport in the UK, outside London, and services the entire North West region. While more than 20 million passengers currently use the airport every year, these numbers are expected to go up to 40 million by 2015. The airport has finalised plans to increase the capacity of the airport considerably and expects to cater to 75 flights a day in 2015, up from the current figure of less than 60. This has obviously led to strong protests from people who live nearby, environmentalists and various Green groups. Many people feel that the Greater Manchester area is already well developed and any further increase in airport traffic is unlikely to result in incremental economic benefits. The last major expansion at Manchester Airport, which involved the construction of the second runway, did not result in any major increase in employment, and it is unlikely that any future expansion will result in any growth in the number of jobs. Furthermore, tourist traffic, even at present, is overwhelmingly outward, income from tourism being far lesser than the amounts spent by tourists going abroad. There appears to be a strong consensual opinion among local residents, activists and environmentalists that further airport expansion will lead to increase in noise, pollution and waste, and that too without any significant economic advantage. Even the Sustainability Report of the MAG appears to reinforce the possibility of escalation in environmental damage by showing an unwillingness to control noise at existing levels, after 2012.
The Manchester Airport authorities are committed to sustainable practices and have initiated a number of moves in areas involving waste management, emission of carbon gases and control of noise levels. However, they face an enormous challenge because of rapidly increasing air traffic and while they are committed to controlling environmental damage there are no clear plans about how they will deal with these hazards after the substantial expansion in air traffic takes place.
The recent suggestions made by Sir Richard Branson on control of environmental pollution could prove to be very relevant. In an interview with the Guardian in September, 2006, Sir Richard made the following suggestions.
"One of those ideas is to set up starting grids at the airports so that instead of sitting on planes with CO2 spewing out of those planes for anything up to 60-90 minutes ...

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