This is absurd. Private jets emit 45 times more carbon emissions than commercial jets flying the same route and 1,100 times than a train going the same route. Please do something.
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Sara-Larus Tolley
3 years ago
Please, Governor Healy, we have to consider that private jets emissions are 45% higher than those of regularly jet travel!
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Anonymous
3 years ago
It's time to be cutting way down on private jet capacity, not building it. We all know this, right?
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Suzanne Plaut
3 years ago
Wealthy people with private jets should have to consider the carbon and climate impact of their convenience when they won't be more climate feimdly flying a commercial plane with the rest of us. At the very least there should be a HUGE extra cost with he funds used to stop the practice
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Maz Kessler
3 years ago
Dear Governor - This is the very LEAST WE CAN DO! Thank you.
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Eric Scheuch
3 years ago
As a climate scientist, this is appalling.
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Tamara Griggs
3 years ago
"I feel like an idiot explaining why this is a bad idea, but here goes: 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." -- Bill McKibben
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Jon Saphier
3 years ago
The interests of business must be subordinated to the interests of the planet and the damage of climate change.
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Julia
3 years ago
Expansion of Hanscom would be an environmental injustice - more air pollution for towns that are trying to reduce their CO2 emissions, while benefitting only the ultra rich who can afford to fly in private jets. It would also be antithetical to MA's 2021 Climate Law.
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Anonymous
3 years ago
My family's home is under a flight path. We do not want more noise and air traffic. It's very loud and obnoxious as of right now.
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neil glickman
3 years ago
great presentation
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Kirsten
3 years ago
I am against this operation/expansion for many reasons -envirommental, noise pollution, animal life,
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Nicolette Wellington
3 years ago
We live in Acton Ma.
Many planes fly overhead and are flying quite low.
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Kathleen Fahey
3 years ago
I work at the Friends of Minute Man National Park, a non-profit organization that supports the park. We are concerned about the increased noise resulting from the expansion at Hanscom. Noise from airplanes at Hanscom is an existing issue that disrupts our programming at the park.
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Catherine Romeo
3 years ago
As a Bedford resident, I believe that expansion of private jet capacity at Hanscom flies in the face of every hard-won effort in MA to reduce CO2 emissions and--with no time left on the countdown clock-- save our planet.
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John Paino
3 years ago
The pollution and smell of the jet fuel, the noise created by the whining engines, the effect on the environment, the fact that we are surrounded by a national park, makes this attempted expansion a very bad idea. Our national park celebrates our stand against tyranny, and now we need our Governor to stand with us against the elite 1/10 of 1 % who would take away our rights, and all future generations’ rights, to clean air, and peaceful skies. This is sacred ground we live on in these revolutionary towns, and we need to stand up now to protect it.
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Michael W Hayes
3 years ago
We vote no....no more noise, toxic pollution, and jet expansion at Hansson.
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katharine esty
3 years ago
we need to stop this expansion of hangars for private jets. our efforts for a sustainable future are set back. katharine esty in concord
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Paula Gillis Ojemann
3 years ago
It is increasingly true that those who have wealth (users of private jet companies) are increasingly disrupting the lives of others while having the means to live in homes untouched by the inconvenience of such noise. Hanscom plane noise used to be bearable by those of us living in the flight path. This is no longer true with the influx of large low flying private jets. That speaks nothing to the impact of these jets on the wildlife at the Great Meadows Wildlife Refuge, which years ago barred dog walking and biking because of concerns for the wildlife. Will we ever say no to "progress" that serves so few and disrupts so many?
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Anonymous
3 years ago
This expansion will set us way back in our efforts to combat climate change.
This is absurd. Private jets emit 45 times more carbon emissions than commercial jets flying the same route and 1,100 times than a train going the same route. Please do something.
Please, Governor Healy, we have to consider that private jets emissions are 45% higher than those of regularly jet travel!
It's time to be cutting way down on private jet capacity, not building it. We all know this, right?
Wealthy people with private jets should have to consider the carbon and climate impact of their convenience when they won't be more climate feimdly flying a commercial plane with the rest of us. At the very least there should be a HUGE extra cost with he funds used to stop the practice
Dear Governor - This is the very LEAST WE CAN DO! Thank you.
As a climate scientist, this is appalling.
"I feel like an idiot explaining why this is a bad idea, but here goes: 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." -- Bill McKibben
The interests of business must be subordinated to the interests of the planet and the damage of climate change.
Expansion of Hanscom would be an environmental injustice - more air pollution for towns that are trying to reduce their CO2 emissions, while benefitting only the ultra rich who can afford to fly in private jets. It would also be antithetical to MA's 2021 Climate Law.
My family's home is under a flight path. We do not want more noise and air traffic. It's very loud and obnoxious as of right now.
great presentation
I am against this operation/expansion for many reasons -envirommental, noise pollution, animal life,
We live in Acton Ma. Many planes fly overhead and are flying quite low.
I work at the Friends of Minute Man National Park, a non-profit organization that supports the park. We are concerned about the increased noise resulting from the expansion at Hanscom. Noise from airplanes at Hanscom is an existing issue that disrupts our programming at the park.
As a Bedford resident, I believe that expansion of private jet capacity at Hanscom flies in the face of every hard-won effort in MA to reduce CO2 emissions and--with no time left on the countdown clock-- save our planet.
The pollution and smell of the jet fuel, the noise created by the whining engines, the effect on the environment, the fact that we are surrounded by a national park, makes this attempted expansion a very bad idea. Our national park celebrates our stand against tyranny, and now we need our Governor to stand with us against the elite 1/10 of 1 % who would take away our rights, and all future generations’ rights, to clean air, and peaceful skies. This is sacred ground we live on in these revolutionary towns, and we need to stand up now to protect it.
We vote no....no more noise, toxic pollution, and jet expansion at Hansson.
we need to stop this expansion of hangars for private jets. our efforts for a sustainable future are set back. katharine esty in concord
It is increasingly true that those who have wealth (users of private jet companies) are increasingly disrupting the lives of others while having the means to live in homes untouched by the inconvenience of such noise. Hanscom plane noise used to be bearable by those of us living in the flight path. This is no longer true with the influx of large low flying private jets. That speaks nothing to the impact of these jets on the wildlife at the Great Meadows Wildlife Refuge, which years ago barred dog walking and biking because of concerns for the wildlife. Will we ever say no to "progress" that serves so few and disrupts so many?
This expansion will set us way back in our efforts to combat climate change.