Greece
382 posts, Apr 2003

posted 07-04-2003 04:08 AM            

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http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-7/263654/37984343-dad3.jpg

In this first photograph you see the vestibule of the main railway station of Rome, Italy. It is a place where travellers converge to take trains for all of Italy, and for abroad. One thing you will see prominently displayed are comparative charts showing the pollution generated by rail transport, road transport and aircraft. The amount of fuel burnt, and greenhouse gases generated, is lowest for trains, higher for cars and much higher again for air travel.

These signs are something like the health warnings on cigarette advertisements, because right in the middle of the vestibule, where everyone can see it, is a huge advertising hoarding attempting to attract travellers away from the trains to the aircraft of a company called Wind Jet. Wind Jet offer domestic air tickets, from Rome to Palermo in Sicily, for example, which is as far from Rome as Sarajevo, for the ridiculous price of 19 euros 99.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-7/263654/532609103-dad1.jpg

Look more closely at the bottom part of the advertisement. Notice the jet stream billowing out behind the plane? Now, this is obviously photomontage, but why does this company want to have what looks like a chemtrail coming out of the rear of the plane? Is this my imagination run riot? It is speculation, but how is it that this company can offer such cheap air tickets? Is it perhaps in receipt of subsidies? And are these subsidies granted for services rendered in the department of environmental engineering: spraying of aerosols?

The Shield Report says that civilian airlines are involved in spraying. Are these the cut-price airlines like Wind Jet? And does this put us in the ridiculous position of subsidising and thus encouraging the most environmentally destructive form of transport, the form of transport most highly generative of greenhouse gases, in order to support a programme which is supposedly aimed at reducing the damage to the environment caused by an excess of emissions of greenhouse gases.
Friends of the Earth had a campaign a few years ago to try to prevent the proliferation of cut-price air travel and cheap air tickets. Perhaps they are the ones who could be asked to do the research into Wind Jet.


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Canberra Australia
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344 posts, Mar 2003

posted 07-04-2003 05:31 AM            

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Wayne,

"Is this my imagination run riot? It is speculation, but how is it that this company can offer such cheap air tickets? Is it perhaps in receipt of subsidies? And are these subsidies granted for services rendered in the department of environmental engineering: spraying of aerosols?"

A friend who has much better equipment than I has identified the cheap air lines like Easy Jet as commercial sprayers...it could be sponsored as you suggest or the type of fuel they are using. In whatever case it is illegal

In the last month I have seen more chemtrails on TV programes and commercials and would agree about it being a desensitizing process.