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Emirates' Clark slams governments on eco-taxes

By Geoffrey Thomas
Eco-Aviation Today, October 12, 2009, p.6

Emirates Airlines President Tim Clark slammed governments for using aviation as a cash cow under the guise of an environmental tax. Speaking with Eco-Aviation Today, he claimed that the EU has followed the UK's lead by directing that ETS revenue should go to the general treasury, "which destroys the credibility of the environmental movement at a government level. Why aren't the funds going to engine makers to help fund better engines? Why isn't it going to renewable power sources?"

He lamented that EK has had to set up a "huge bureaucracy" to measure and observe what is happening with the environment and government. He also is concerned at the myriad agendas of different governments and the lack of agreement over what should be done and how. "Even the ICAO members don't agree," he said.

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