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	<title>Aviation Environment Federation</title>
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	<description>The AEF is a UK-based association that is concerned exclusively with the environmental impacts of aviation.</description>
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		<title>Huge emissions from Manchester/Dubai Airbus A380</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each flight of the Airbus 380 on the new Manchester/Dubai service will use kerosene at 10.04 gallons per mile and will pump 401 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. On-board water load doubled so 14 first class passengers can have 5 minutes each in the shower at 35,000 feet! See press release from Manchester Airport Environment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aef.org.uk/?p=1109</link>
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		<title>Change of policies from Labour and ConLibs?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are hints of changes in aviation policy from both Labour and the ConLib coalition. Labour leadership contender, Ed Miliband, said that if elected as leader he would abandon Labour&#8217;s support for a third runway at Heathrow. (Reported in the Evening Standard, 31/8/10). ConLibs are holding firm on their opposition to a third runway as well as extra [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aef.org.uk/?p=1107</link>
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		<title>Victory against all the odds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A booklet has been published which describes the remarkable victory won by campaigners who opposed a third runway at Heathrow. The booklet is published as a PDF file on the HACAN web site.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aef.org.uk/?p=1104</link>
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		<title>Banning noisy aircraft &#8211; Australia leads the way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia is set to ban the noisiest aircraft from landing at its airports. Simply banning the nosiest aicraft is one of the most effective ways of reducing noise nuisance. Yet the UK and other government are reluctant to use this obvious and effective measure, despite saying they are concerned about aircraft noise. Here is article reproduced from Cargo World. Australia is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aef.org.uk/?p=1102</link>
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		<title>A little bit of the aviation&#8217;s tax dodge removed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent Budget contained a small but sensible and welcome change. In future the VAT exemption will only apply the commercial aircraft used on international routes. See Treasury note. To be more precise, under the current law, the supply, repair, or maintenance, of an aircraft is zero-rated for VAT purposes if it weighs 8,000 kg [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aef.org.uk/?p=1100</link>
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		<title>Airports choose not to fine airlines for bad track-keeping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of our members has raised the issue of bad track-keeping, having heard that aircraft operators can be fined by the airport for doing so.  We are indebted to another member, Paul Grimley, for the following information. Historically, we understand that airports in UK did not have specific legal power to fine airlines for bad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aef.org.uk/?p=1098</link>
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		<title>Summer newsletter published</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The summer newsletter has been published. Articles include: * coalition government and airports policy * economics round-up * giving children a break from noise * helicopter noise coalition The newsletter has been sent to members.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aef.org.uk/?p=1095</link>
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		<title>Latest falling objects report includes a door, a fuselage panel and other aircraft parts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest report for AEF from the CAA lists the following as having fallen from aircraft between 1st January and 30th June 2010. For information about how to report objects that you believe may have fallen from aircraft, see the introduction to our safety section. 11 icefalls 3 aircraft parts 2 fuselage panels 1 door [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aef.org.uk/?p=1094</link>
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		<title>Meetings with government, UN aviation specialists, and teenage visitors to the Farnborough Air Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much of our work in the past fortnight has focused on UK airports policy. Tim attended the first meeting of the South East Airports Task Force (minutes of which will be uploaded shortly on the Department for Transport website), while Cait helped coordinate a more general NGO meeting with the Department. This confirmed that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aef.org.uk/?p=1093</link>
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		<title>Review of Public Safety Zones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Public Safety Zones (more correctly called public danger zones) around airports are being reviewed. Reviewed in 2009: Southampton, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness, Bristol and Newcastle. To be reviewed 2010/11: Humberside, Plymouth, Gatwick, Liverpool John Lennon, Bournemouth, London City, new PSZ at Blackpool. We do not have further information at this stage. Update 26/7/10:  Consultation documents and maps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aef.org.uk/?p=1089</link>
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