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STOP SUPER-EMITTER PRIVATE JET EXPANSION AT HANSCOM -- OR ANY AIRPORT
Dear Governor Healey,
We, the undersigned, respectfully and urgently ask you to use the full measure of your powers to stop Massport’s expansion plans for private luxury jet capacity at Hanscom Field, a project which will facilitate hundreds of thousands of tons of greenhouse gas emissions, in opposition to every Climate goal that our towns, our Commonwealth, and the nation are working arduously to achieve.
Hanscom Field is already the largest private jetport in New England. The proposal to triple the private jet capacity at Hanscom field will enable tens of thousands more flights per year, with a resultant greenhouse gas emission rate cancelling out the climate benefit of about a quarter of all the solar PV installations in Massachusetts.
This is an issue of environmental justice: a single private luxury jet trip to Asia generates more CO2e than a typical family in India generates in an entire lifetime.
Governments are beginning to acknowledge that we must stop growing private jet traffic. According to a 4/4/23 CNN report, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has recently proposed a ban on private jets by 2026 because of climate impacts and justice issues.
Instead of working to reduce the number of these super-emitters, we subsidize them: private jets are exempt from sales tax; their facilities are exempt from property tax; and they provide huge tax breaks to their owners.
We applaud you, Governor Healey, for the bold and ambitious Climate goals you have set forth for our Commonwealth. Yet under no scenario can we afford a major setback and permit the expansion of greenhouse gas emissions by hundreds of thousands of tons.
Massport benefits from private jet expansion, yet disclaims any responsibility for the resultant greenhouse gas emissions. Massport is not subject to any control by the legislature.
Only the governor has any power over Massport.
We, therefore, appeal to you to apply your leadership and authority to renounce expansion of private jet capacity at Hanscom – or at any airport – and thereby send a message to Massport, and every other airport owner, that such expansions are incompatible with the drastic and unprecedented steps we are now called upon to take to reduce CO2 emissions.
NOTE TO SIGNERS:
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Writing this while experiencing another day of torrential rain, street flooding and warnings of a possible tornado due to global warming. We are now living with the results of climate change. Please stop this damaging expansion. Maynard, MA
As a constituent at 30 Valley Rd, Lexington, I would like to note that in addition to CO2 emissions, private jet travel also increases noise pollution, shown to affect human health as well as local habitats for birds, insects, and other wildlife.
Dear Gov Healy, you have an opportunity here to walk the talk on climate. Local towns can nickel and dime their way to lessening environmental impacts with plastic bag bans. Here, you can do more in a single action. Thank you for preventing this expansion.
A half million sq ft hangar space, and a new runway for bigger, heavier planes to benefit people who can afford $7500/hour at the expense of our climate health is obscene. Stop this, Governor Healey. I voted for you to prevent this sort of issue.
Swift climate action requires us to reduce air travel, not expand it. This is especially true for the most polluting form, private jets. They are the epitomy of climate injustice. Noone serious about climate protection can support this project.
This project will be seen as the wrong side of history. How can we implement and commit to the uphill battle of being stewards of our Earth, and also contribute to its destruction with the development of a facility that will effectively erase the work done in Massachusetts? All of the tireless work by advocates and elected officials - just erased by the development of a niche market, exclusive private jet facility? It's nonsensical. Children will look back at those who signed on to this development, in awe of the decision. And, they will shake their heads sadly. It is an easy no. We must re-orient how we think about transportation and transportation accessibility if we are truly committed to the future of the Earth and its sustainability.
No one wants this!! An expansion will only be a burden to our community and is only beneficial to the greedy and the wealthy.
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STOP SUPER-EMITTER PRIVATE JET EXPANSION AT HANSCOM -- OR ANY AIRPORT
Dear Governor Healey,
We, the undersigned, respectfully and urgently ask you to use the full measure of your powers to stop Massport’s expansion plans for private luxury jet capacity at Hanscom Field, a project which will facilitate hundreds of thousands of tons of greenhouse gas emissions, in opposition to every Climate goal that our towns, our Commonwealth, and the nation are working arduously to achieve.
Hanscom Field is already the largest private jetport in New England. The proposal to triple the private jet capacity at Hanscom field will enable tens of thousands more flights per year, with a resultant greenhouse gas emission rate cancelling out the climate benefit of about a quarter of all the solar PV installations in Massachusetts.
This is an issue of environmental justice: a single private luxury jet trip to Asia generates more CO2e than a typical family in India generates in an entire lifetime.
Governments are beginning to acknowledge that we must stop growing private jet traffic. According to a 4/4/23 CNN report, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has recently proposed a ban on private jets by 2026 because of climate impacts and justice issues.
Instead of working to reduce the number of these super-emitters, we subsidize them: private jets are exempt from sales tax; their facilities are exempt from property tax; and they provide huge tax breaks to their owners.
We applaud you, Governor Healey, for the bold and ambitious Climate goals you have set forth for our Commonwealth. Yet under no scenario can we afford a major setback and permit the expansion of greenhouse gas emissions by hundreds of thousands of tons.
Massport benefits from private jet expansion, yet disclaims any responsibility for the resultant greenhouse gas emissions. Massport is not subject to any control by the legislature.
Only the governor has any power over Massport.
We, therefore, appeal to you to apply your leadership and authority to renounce expansion of private jet capacity at Hanscom – or at any airport – and thereby send a message to Massport, and every other airport owner, that such expansions are incompatible with the drastic and unprecedented steps we are now called upon to take to reduce CO2 emissions.
NOTE TO SIGNERS:
- Donations go to iPetitions.com, not to this cause. You can close out of the Donations page.
- Please add your city or town in the Comments section
- Please circulate this petition widely.
- For more information, visit www.stopprivatejetexpansion.org
Campaign to Stop Super-Emitter Private Jet Expansion at
Hanscom--or Any Airport
Updates
Reached 5,000 supporters
June 20, 2023
Reached 1,000 supporters
April 14, 2023
Reached 100 supporters
April 11, 2023
2,235 Comments
Private jets convenience the few at the expense of the many. Those of us in the neighborhood of Hanscom would pay for this project with the health effects of the pollution and noise, to say nothing of the extra greenhouse gas that affects everyone.
Writing this while experiencing another day of torrential rain, street flooding and warnings of a possible tornado due to global warming. We are now living with the results of climate change. Please stop this damaging expansion. Maynard, MA
As a constituent at 30 Valley Rd, Lexington, I would like to note that in addition to CO2 emissions, private jet travel also increases noise pollution, shown to affect human health as well as local habitats for birds, insects, and other wildlife.
Dear Gov Healy, you have an opportunity here to walk the talk on climate. Local towns can nickel and dime their way to lessening environmental impacts with plastic bag bans. Here, you can do more in a single action. Thank you for preventing this expansion.
A half million sq ft hangar space, and a new runway for bigger, heavier planes to benefit people who can afford $7500/hour at the expense of our climate health is obscene. Stop this, Governor Healey. I voted for you to prevent this sort of issue.
Swift climate action requires us to reduce air travel, not expand it. This is especially true for the most polluting form, private jets. They are the epitomy of climate injustice. Noone serious about climate protection can support this project.
This project will be seen as the wrong side of history. How can we implement and commit to the uphill battle of being stewards of our Earth, and also contribute to its destruction with the development of a facility that will effectively erase the work done in Massachusetts? All of the tireless work by advocates and elected officials - just erased by the development of a niche market, exclusive private jet facility? It's nonsensical. Children will look back at those who signed on to this development, in awe of the decision. And, they will shake their heads sadly. It is an easy no. We must re-orient how we think about transportation and transportation accessibility if we are truly committed to the future of the Earth and its sustainability.
No one wants this!! An expansion will only be a burden to our community and is only beneficial to the greedy and the wealthy.
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Private jets convenience the few at the expense of the many. Those of us in the neighborhood of Hanscom would pay for this project with the health effects of the pollution and noise, to say nothing of the extra greenhouse gas that affects everyone.