Huge cruise ships will worsen London air pollution, campaigners warn
by John Vidal from Environment | The Guardian on (#18V51)
Resident groups mounting a high court challenge to plans for a new wharf in Greenwich say diesel emissions from docked liners would breach legal limits
Toxic fumes from large cruise liners powered by giant diesel engines will worsen London's air pollution and could prevent the city from meeting its EU legal limits on deadly nitrogen oxide emissions, says resident groups opposing a new terminal.
Plans for a wharf in the Thames that would be able to handle 240 metre-long cruise liners carrying up to 1,800 passengers and 600 crew were approved by Greenwich council last July but are being challenged in the high court by residents.
