Home Office: Head in the clouds?
Posted on Thursday, January 29th, 2009 by Home Office WatchCategory: Departmental Administration
Dizzy Thinks highlights the Home Office’s love of flying, when we’re all supposed to be cutting carbon emissions:
“Last year, the Home Office, achieved the staggering figure of 3,115,863 air miles on domestic flights alone. Meanwhile the Home Office did 1,626,114 miles on short-haul and 3,980,766 on long-haul. Apparently this is OK though because the Home Office “ensures the Department offsets carbon dioxide emissions from its official air travel.”
“Frankly this is beside the point. We, the proles, are constantly being told that climate change is going to kill the entire world. That we should avoid unnecessarily wasting energy, certainly not take domestic flights when the trains will do. We’re bombarded with adverts about “Acting on CO2″ and here we have the Home Office doing the equivalent of about 12 round trips from London to Edinburgh every day for a whole year?!?”
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February 5th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Given the doubtful nature of offsetting this looks dreadful. Chance of an MP asking a question?