France ditches plans for divisive west coast airport
AFP
| 2018/01/17 | 180 words
| LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | AIR TRANSPORT
The French government on Wednesday formally abandoned decades-old plans for a controversial new airport on the west coast that became a site of resistance for environmental activists.In a keenly awaited announcement, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said the divisions unleashed by the proposed new airport at Notre-Dame-des-Landes near the city of Nantes made it impossible to proceed."The project cannot go ahead in a climate of bitter opposition between two sides of the population that are nea...(…)
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