Snowy airports

In December the United Kingdom was covered in snow. As snow goes it was not as bad as the conditions that prevail in some parts of Europe every winter.  Virtually every other northern European country has had such snowfall most years and copes well. Their airports are kept open. In the United Kingdom Heathrow Airport closed down because snow fell.

The environmental case for another runway at Heathrow Airport

London Airport at Heathrow is one of the busiest airports in the world. It has runways and five terminals. The latest, Terminal Five, is a new glass and steel structure fashionably designed apparently but to me , it has all of the charm of a modern industrial building. It is a testament to the environmental claims of the operators of Heathrow, British Airport Authority, that the massive sloping roof of the Terminal Five building is unscarred by solar panels or photovoltaics.