名為「愚蠢飛機」（Plane Stupid）的氣候行動團體，8日早上跨越英國第3大機場的安全圍欄，在機場跑道上紮營，並以人力串連的方式包圍安全圍欄，機場營運一度癱瘓。該團體表示，他們的目標是儘可能地延長機場癱瘓的時間，避免上千公噸的溫室氣體排放到大氣中。
他們在抗議聲明中指出，斯坦斯特機場每班次起降對氣候所產生的影響，平均約是41.58公噸二氧化碳，而在機場上每分鐘就排放4公噸的二氧化碳。
當時被鎖在圍欄上的抗議人士克勒斯頓表示：「我很害怕，因為根本沒有預期到會在和平示威中被除雪機衝撞。」
艾塞克斯郡警察動用了專門設備來驅除抗議人士，57人遭到逮捕。
斯坦斯特機場航運業務量最大的萊恩航空公司，要求負責機場營運的BAA公司針對示威人士能在凌晨3點破壞機場的安全圍欄，以及耗費了超過5小時才將示威人士從計程車道驅離做出解釋。
萊恩公司在聲明稿中表示，斯坦斯特機場的安全漏洞顯示出嚴重的機場管理疏失，其中也包括安全檢測和護照檢查處的大排長龍。
萊恩公司12月8日重申，為了改善客戶服務，應中止BAA對於全英國機場和斯坦斯特航運業務的壟斷式控管。
BAA公司主要控管包括希斯羅在內的7座英國機場，擁有義大利那不勒斯機場65%的股份，以及美國巴爾的摩華盛頓國際機場、波士頓洛根機場和匹茲堡機場的零售管理合約。
斯坦斯特機場是英國第3大機場，提供往返30個國家、超過160個城市的航班，每年服務近2300萬名乘客和18萬4千班次的空中運輸。
在英國政府批准擴大機場每年乘客量到1千萬人後，環保運動人士選擇癱瘓斯坦斯特機場，點明航空業是英國溫室氣體排放量快速成長的來源，幾乎佔英國總排放量的13%。
針對英國各地包括希斯羅和斯坦斯特機場在內的新跑道興建計劃，天德爾氣候變化研究中心學者表示，工黨的航空政策將會抹殺英國已實現的氣候改善成果。
Protesters from the climate action group Plane Stupid this morning shut down Britain's third largest airport by cutting through the perimeter fence and camping on the runway, surrounding themselves with fortified security fencing.
The group said its goal was to maintain its blockade for as long as possible, "preventing the release of thousands of tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere."
The average flight out of Stansted has a climate impact equivalent to 41.58 tonnes of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, the group said in a statement, adding that the airport emits around four tonnes of carbon dioxide every minute.
Protester Richard Claxton, who was locked to the fencing at the time, said, "I was terrified. You don't expect to be attacked with a snowplough on a peaceful protest."
Essex Police brought in specialist equipment to remove the protesters and arrested 57 people.
Ryanair, Stansted's largest airline, today called on BAA Stansted to explain why protestors were able to breach Stansted security at 3 am, and why it took Stansted over five hours to remove them from the taxi-way.
Today's security failure at Stansted joins a long list of management failures at the airport, including lengthy queues at security and at passport control, Ryanair said in a statement.
Ryanair renewed its call today for the break-up of the BAA monopoly control of all British airports and the sale of Stansted in order to improve customer services.
BAA owns seven UK airports, including Heathrow, has a 65 percent stake in Italy's Naples Airport and retail management contracts at three U.S. airports - Baltimore-Washington, Boston-Logan, and Pittsburgh.
Stansted is Britain's third-busiest airport, offering flights to more than 160 destinations in over 30 countries. It serves nearly 23 million passengers and 184,000 air transport movements a year.
The campaigners chose to close Stansted after the government approved the expansion of capacity at the airport by ten million passengers a year. The note that aviation is Britain's fastest growing source of emissions, already amounting to at least 13 percent of the country's climate impact.
With plans for new runways across the UK, including at Heathrow and Stansted, experts from the Tyndall Centre for climate research say the Labour Party's aviation policy alone "will scupper any chance the UK has of hitting its climate targets."
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