The Czech environment ministry has cancelled its approval of the EIA study that would enable the investor Penta to expand the Vodochody airport outside Prague and redevelop it into a second international airport for the city. The ministry says the approval of the IEA was illegal. A local civic initiative argued the expanded airport would exceed the allowed noise limits and that the investor had failed to present a satisfactory traffic solution. Penta’s spokesman Martin Danko told the daily MF Dnes that the investor has 15 days to study the decision and appeal it. Until the decision, Penta had planned to begin the planning process for the investment over the summer, but it will now have to present a new EIA. The first one took it four years to complete.
