Aviation Industry continues green fight back
I have just been pointed towards a long overdue website, which aims to provide information to counteract many of the false claims put forward by the environmental lobby, with regards to the pollution caused by flying.
The site is called enviro.aero.
As with any such websites, there are the usual caveats, but there is no longer any excuse for burying heads in the sand. Of course, this website is going to be biased towards protecting the aviation industry, but as the following article shows, the BBC isn’t exactly that neutral either!
Now if anyone doubts this assertion, lets take a look at the BBC’s coverage, or lack of it, of Easyjet’s recent announcement about their Ecojet initiative:
“Sorry
There are no results for “ecojet” on the BBC website.”
http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=all&q=ecojet&scope=all
This is hardly surprising really - I was at the press conference, and they do not appear to have even bothered to send a reporter - even if the venue was just a short walk (sorry, all expenses paid taxi ride) from BBC HQ.
June 19th, 2007 at 3:06 am
[…] Apart from this minor breach of netiquette, I think the Easyjet Ecojet is a very interesting concept, and will be back for more comment on it later. I just hope the Easyjet PR team think before sending out large attachments next time. This kind of initiative is always going to get a very welcome reception here at Flightmapping.com, but other media outlets, especially the doomsday-predicting Independent, and officially biased BBC are a lot less tolerant! […]