By Jack Cohen-Joppa
In Russian, her name means love. And it’s true. Lyubov Kudryashova loves the broad valley of Russia’s Tobol River, where it meanders out of Kazakhstan into the Kurgan Oblast. Her grandfather is buried there, she was born there, and she’s raised three sons there. As far as she knows, her ancestors have always lived there.
There, below the southern Urals, frigid continental winters give way to spring floods that inundate a landscape of oxbow lakes, wetlands, forests and fields. The waters sustain a large aquifer that Russia recognizes as a strategic reserve of fresh water.
By Jordan Marshall2020-12-16T13:45:00+00:00
But environmental groups vow to block £14bn project in planning
The construction industry has welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to allow a third runway to be built at Heathrow Airport.
This morning the UK’s highest court overturned a decision by the Court of Appeal that the government’s approval of the scheme, which was outlined in the Airports National Policy Statement, had beeen unlawful because it ignored the country’s commitment to the Paris climate agreement.
Today’s ruling means the £14bn project can now proceed.
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The panel of five justices overruled the decision made by the Court of Appeal in February. They decided that former transport secretary Chris Grayling had acted within the law when he approved the scheme by relying on domestic legislation rather than taking into account the Paris commitment to limit global warming to below 2°C.