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Environmental groups say it will result in significantly more flights and wildlife at a neighbouring nature reserve will be impacted.

He told radio station France Bleu that the airport is instead expanding the space available to welcome arriving and departing passengers in terminal 2. “That means an enormous amount of sanitary and environmental waste,” he added. Mr Bitouzé said the prefect for the Alpes-Maritimes region had signed a drought decree and at the same time signed off the airport expansion, which “leads to global warming and therefore droughts!” He said the policy was “completely incoherent”.