Earlier this week Amsterdam Airport Schiphol released its third (!) review of its Environmental Impact Assessment. The report is (again) incorrect on a number of important points.
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This conclusion follows from reports written by the Dutch Environmental Federation, consulting firms PWC and MovingDot.
According to its own EIA, Schiphol can grow to handle 540.000 flights a year, 40.000 more than currently permitted.
Not the environment, but the capacity at air traffic control is the limiting factor, according to the airport’s report.
“The calculations on a number of points are not carried out according to standards, wrong assumptions are used en the method provides a too low estimate of noise pollution”, say the critics.