Now that TM is over - Meeting tonight for this URGENT REQUEST: By MAY 10 –SUBMIT YOUR COMMENT TO STOP PRIVATE JETS

[Ricki Pappo]

TMMs,

Tonight, Thursday, April 25 at 7:30 pm, LexCAN is hosting an actionar to go step by step through the Public Comment Toolkit, have your questions answered, and write your comment. This is regarding the expansion of private jets at Hanscom. Please Register here: or go to https://bit.ly/3PUuyTJ

Let’s hit the 100 comment mark! If you want help in writing a comment, join tonight or see other ways below. 

Get motivated  to write a DEIR comment Letter: listen to Senator Mike Barrett's comments at the March 4 Developers Presentation

The proposed Hanscom expansion would add capacity for super-emitter private jets, consume an expected 5.5 million gallons of aviation fuel annually, and emit a staggering 250,000 new tons of CO2e per year.  If expansion takes place, private jet emissions from Hanscom alone would cancel nearly 70% of the climate gains from all solar PV ever installed in Massachusetts.

In their recently filed Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR), the developers make the astonishing claims that this expansion will decrease flights, decrease emissions, help meet Net Zero goals (because their buildings are “green”) and promote sustainable aviation fuels. These assertions are deeply flawed and misleading.

The public comment period for the DEIR is now open until May 10th. 

Let’s flood the Office of MA Environmental Policy Act (MEPA with comments opposing this project and expose the DEIR's flawed arguments. Ask the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Tepper to instruct the developers to go back to the drawing board to revise their DEIR.

Choose how to submit a comment letter!

1. Join the Lexington Climate Action Network Hanscom “Actionar,” Thursday, April 25 at 7:30 pm to go step by step through the Public Comment Toolkit, have your questions answered, and write your comment.   Registration here: or go to https://bit.ly/3PUuyTJ

OR

2. To make the greatest impact use the STOP PRIVATE JET EXPANSION (SPJE) campaign’s Public Comment Toolkit, available at spje.org/DEIRtools with

· Background information: Our Goal

· How to build your comment – Step by Step

· Talking Points 

· How to make your comment even stronger - resources

· How to ask others to submit a comment – ready-to-go resources

OR

3. Use the Mothers Out Front’s 4/2/24 Climate Action Call on the comments using these resources:

·      Action Instructions

·      Event Slides

·      Event Recording     

It’s easy using the template provided in the Action Instructions

Whichever method you choose, bcc: in...@lexcan.org on your comment letter and share this urgent message with 5 friends.  Make your comment count toward our goal of 100!!! We are currently at 60 letters! THIS is one of those moments where numbers matter!

Thank you.

Ricki Pappo

Pct 2

[Sallye Bleiberg]

Mailing the 55 we have today. Sallye 

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On Apr 25, 2024, at 8:54 AM, Ricki Pappo <ricki...@gmail.com> wrote:



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