Concord Journal
October 6, 2005

Letter: Communities have been shafted

To the editor:

Our communities have just been shafted by the commonwealth's Executive
Office of Environmental Affairs. Last week, EOEA rejected any environmental
review of the huge Crosspoint aviation terminal proposal for Hanscom Field
(the airport, not the Air Force Base). It even denied any public comment
period on our citizens' group ShhAir's legal request for environmental
review.

Please read the guest opinion piece in this newspaper for a more
detailed explanation of this issue.

In all my years of working to contain the size of Hanscom Field, in an
effort to keep it in balance with its environs, I find this latest episode
the most disheartening in a long saga of disappointment in our state
government and political leaders.

Gov. Romney made a campaign promise that he opposed further expansion
of Hanscom Field. He is in charge of the Executive Office of Environmental
Affairs. This new facility, on Virginia Road, abutting the Minute Man
National Historical Park, will increase by 50 percent Hanscom's capacity for
noisy, polluting corporate jets, which have almost quadrupled in the last 10
years. The state is taking the position that it will have no environmental
effects. We should all be outraged. I urge you to go to ShhAir's Web site to
send your message to the governor.

Sarah Lazarus
Main Street

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