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Massport is planning a massive hangar build-out for private luxury jets at Hanscom Airport, representing the largest single development in Hanscom’s history. If carried out, these plans will dramatically increase greenhouse gas emissions and undercut town, state, and national climate goals at a time when climate scientists are warning us to dramatically decrease our emissions.

Private jets, which typically carry four to five passengers, generate nearly six times more CO2 per flight than a typical passenger car generates per year and are up to 14 times more polluting, per passenger, than commercial planes. For this reason, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has proposed a ban on private jets. France is also considering a ban.

The Hanscom project would nullify the climate benefits of approximately 1/3 of all the current solar energy installations in Massachusetts. For this reason alone, expansion of private plane facilities should not move forward here – or at any other airport.

In the era of Zoom meetings and an abundance of more efficient travel options, there is no benefit to the Hanscom project that would compensate for the harms to the climate it would cause.

We cannot allow the convenience and luxury of the privileged few to accelerate the catastrophic effects of climate change on billions of people.

Please sign this petition to Governor Healey to demand that she stop this expansion. NOTE: When you see a donation page, you can close out of it. Donations go to iPetitions, not our cause.

The proposed development would:
• Add nearly 500,000 square feet of hangar space on 49 acres of mostly undisturbed land

• Add 27 private jet hangars for up to 81 additional private jets

• Add more than 36 acres of rainwater-impervious area

• Impact 35 environmental justice populations within a 5-mile radius

• Clear-cut mature trees that are the most efficient CO2 carbon sequestration technology

• Harm local wildlife and biodiversity


“Our world needs climate action on all fronts: everything, everywhere, all at once.” – UN Secretary General António Guterres

“The Hanscom Field expansion is] the single most ludicrous idea I’ve ever heard. They ought to rename it Carbon Dioxide Field. Find a way to knock that down fast.” – Bill Mckibben, in a talk in Concord on April 2, 2023

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