Virgin Australia was quoted as saying its aircraft could "continue to safely operate" to the island earlier this week, but has subsequently suspended flights.
Kathryn Z. Klaber, president of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, described them as "further affirmation that the Marcellus Shale will continue to safely produce prolific amounts of clean-burning American natural gas for generations to come".
"While always keeping in mind the tremendous responsibility we have to maintain stable conditions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, we will continue to safely work toward the mid- to long-term decommissioning of the reactors.
It added: "Our main priority is to guarantee that humanitarian organisations like ours are able to continue to safely conduct search and rescue activities in the central Mediterranean with the aim of saving lives".
Instead, it should abandon its severely flawed proposal and leave airspace regulation to the FAA so the drone industry, and American aviation as a whole, can continue to safely operate in our skies.
In the meantime, we will continue to safely store the fuel on site as we always have".
