No Easy Ride for 3rd Heathrow Runway

"I don't understand how any government remotely serious about committing to reversing climate change can even consider these ridiculous plans," she said. "It's laughably hypocritical. That's why we've bought a plot on the runway. We'll stop this from happening."

Greenpeace Climate Campaigner Anna Jones poses for photographs in front of letters of their slogan...

Greenpeace Climate Campaigner Anna Jones poses for photographs in front of letters of their slogan 'Our Climate Our Land', partially seen, on a plot of land in Sipson, north of Heathrow Airport, in west London,Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Greenpeace revealed that it had bought a section of land on the proposed site of a third runway for Heathrow Airport, and was planning to divide it into tiny pieces in a bid to gridlock the planning process with hundreds of legal challenges. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)

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Greenpeace posted a notice on its Web site Tuesday urging supporters to sign up to become legal owners of the property on the deeds in a bid to make it more complicated for the British government to take the property or negotiate its purchase.

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