With some of these companies it's hard to see how they don't suffer from some serious cognitive dissonance. Npower for instance have a whole section of their corporate responsibility web site dedicated to climate change issues [2]. Entitled "Moving to a low carbon economy" it has several subsections and they say, "it’s clear that we need to reduce our CO2 emissions in the long term". And airport expansion will help will it?

Another signatory is the Global Legal Services company DLA Piper. Last year they organised a whole conference on climate change in Sheffield and even had Al Gore as their star speaker [3]. Interesting that they find no contradiction with their commitment to tackling climate change and their support for Heathrow's third runway!

One signatory that's probably not worth bothering with is Merrill Lynch, the $1tn dollar company who was sold to the Bank of America for $50bn yesterday.

Anyway here's the full list 3rd runway supporters, courtesy of Future Heathrow. If enough people hassle these companies over this it might make them think again before joining such alliances in the future.


LIST OF SIGNATORIES:

Addleshaw Goddard

Alliance Boots

Amec

Amey

Arora

Asian Business Association

AstraZeneca

Avanta

Babcock

BAE Systems

Balfour Beatty

Barclays

Boeing

British American Tobacco

BBA Aviation

British Chambers of Commerce

British Hospitality Association

British Land

BT

Carillion

Carlton Partners

CBI

Clifford Chance

Cinven

Citi

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice

Construction Products Association

Compass Group

Corus

Costain

Counselage

Deloitte

Deutsche Bank

Diageo

Dial Consultants

DLA Piper

DWC Tang

EC Harris

Ernst and Young

EDS

Enterprise Inns

Freshfields Bruckhaus

Deringer

Friends Provident

First Group

Future Heathrow

GMB

Greenhill

Guoman Hotels

Hilton Hotels

Imperial Tobacco

IoD

JCA Group

JCB

JC Decaux

JER Partners

JP Morgan Cazenove

Laing O'Rourke

London Chamber of Commerce and Industry

London Stock Exchange

Mace

Marshalls

MCM

Merrill Lynch

MMC

Nomura

Noon

NSG Group

Omnicom Group

Pendragon

Pirelli

QinetiQ

RioTinto

Rothschild

RWE npower

SAB Miller

The Sage Group plc

Stuart Aviation

Standard Chartered

Scottish Chambers of Commerce

Scottish Council for Development and Industry

Serco

Severn Trent

Siemens

Sodexo

Spencer Stuart

Tate & Lyle

The Blackstone Group

Thistle

Thomson Reuters

Tube Lines

TUC

Turner and Townsend

Thames Valley Economic Partnership

Ulster Bank Group

Unite

United Utilities

Whitbread

Whitehead Mann

West London Business

WPP Group

Wragge & Co LLP




[1]  http://www.futureheathrow.org/press-release.php?id=141

[2]  http://www.npower.com/rwenpowercr/6_responsible_business/6_2_transition_to_low_carbon/6_2_2_reducing_carbon_footprint.html

[3]  http://www.dlapiper.com/global/media/detail.aspx?news=2342