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Stop Private Jet Expansion at Hanscom or Anywhere

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Jere S Armen
3 years ago

Thank you, Governor Healey, for your activism on behalf of the planet. As you no doubt no, private jets emit more greenhouse gases than commercial aircraft do. The world does not need more private jets. It does need a sustainable future.

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Brian Webster
3 years ago

In the future we will need to severely limit all but vital air transport if we are to move together along the path to a climate-friendly future

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Katherine DiMatteo
3 years ago

I live in Massachusetts and I urge you to be climate leader, and stop the expansion which only supports and encourages disastrous climate impacts by private jets. Thank you

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Frances Lee
3 years ago

Luxury jet travel is worse than commercial jet travel and the two together are taking us farther from our necessary green house gas reductions. Do not expand private jetports!

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RON AUERBACHER
3 years ago

For the sake of all living beings!

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Peggy Yeargain
3 years ago

Please stop this project

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Tom Prince
3 years ago

This idea is flying in the wrong direction- turn it around!

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Cher Gilmore
3 years ago

Private jets, as the Boston Globe pointed out, emit about ten times more carbon per mile traveled than commercial aviation, and on shorter hauls that number is even higher: Flights from New York to Washington, D.C., on private jets are responsible for about 45 times the emissions per passenger of commercial planes flying the same route, and more than 1,100 times the emissions per passenger of train travel to those cities. In our wretchedly unequal society, the number of these flights is growing rapidly, up 11 percent last year. Quoting Bill McKIbben, "This needs to stop."

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Nan Sierra
3 years ago

It's 2023. The planet is about to surpass 1.5 degrees of overheating. Our lives and wellbeing is at stake. Please do not approve this private jetport.

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Liz Campbell
3 years ago

please, climate goals do not coincide with this plan. No!

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Joan Kenny
3 years ago

In today's want of a reduction of noise. air and carbon pollution, Allowing an expansion of private jet use by a few elites at Hanscom will negate any gains made in to reduce global warming in other forms. This is just another example of rules for thee but not for me.

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Mona Kanin
3 years ago

As a resident of Massachusetts and proud of it's green legacy, I believe it's essential to ban private jet expansion.

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Barbara Milligan
3 years ago

If there's any hope for our planet and for the future of humanity, we must stop this obviously destructive scheme.

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Katy Taylor
3 years ago

please protect life on earth and don't let Massport happen!

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Tawny Reynolds
3 years ago

Private jets are 45x worse for climate change than commercial flights.

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Oliver Hargreave
3 years ago

So the 001 percent who use private jets want to fly themselves and us into oblivion a bit faster, and you want to support this ... for money?

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Anonymous
3 years ago

We are in the middle of a climate emergency. Private jets emit around ten times more carbon per mile than commercial planes.

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Marilyn Ray Smith
3 years ago

Dear Governor Healey, Please stop this unnecessary and irresponsible expansion of Hansom Field, which will primarily benefit those who could easily take other forms of transportation. Private jets are the ultimate in ostentatious and needless contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Th field is already the largest jetport in New England. No need to make it bigger in the face of the Commonwealth's greenhouse gas reduction mandate. Thank you, Marilyn Ray Smith

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Jeff Boyle
3 years ago

Unnecessary and wasteful

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Lisa C Musgrave
3 years ago

It's way past time to stop this kind of thing!!!!