Comments on: New Istanbul Airport Will Kill 658,000 Old Trees https://www.greenprophet.com/2013/04/istanbul-airport-trees/ Sustainably Driven. Future Ready. Thu, 02 May 2013 08:34:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Laurie https://www.greenprophet.com/2013/04/istanbul-airport-trees/#comment-111284 Thu, 02 May 2013 08:34:58 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=93139#comment-111284 To be fair, this story is only about the environmental impact report, there is no news as yet reported regarding mitigations to be made to offset those impacts.

In the USA and EU, the regulatory agencies will require specific actions on the part of the developer as part of the permitting process. Reforestation elsewhere, clean up of an environmentally damaged site, development of new environmental projects, or payment of fees (which will fund other positive enviro initiatives).

Green Prophet will be watching for news as to how Turkey will address this loss if this project is approved for construction.

]]> By: JTR https://www.greenprophet.com/2013/04/istanbul-airport-trees/#comment-110557 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:55:43 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=93139#comment-110557 The legal codes of all nations should be amended to include “crimes against Nature”, because that is certainly what the Turks are doing to expand their Istanbul airport. What the World needs is not more polluting jet plane traffic but less, and not less trees but many more.

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