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Quote of the Week
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Quote of the Week: "For me, for the past six years, this has been like
setting up two good friends on a blind date," he said. "Now I know,
Stewart
and JetBlue are a match made in heaven." Senator "Chuck" Schumer
commenting
on JetBlue starting flights at Upstate New York's Stewart Air****t
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Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter
#400.........................................................................October
27, 2006 Past newsletters can be accessed at:
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To Exempt Aviation Emissions From Global Warming Analysis?
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As Bill Sees It: (Editorial) Watch The Politicians Backtrack On Air****t
Expansion Once They Get Elected!!! I see many stories this week about
this
or that politician coming out against various FAA schemes like the FAA
Eastern Region's Airspace Redesign plan. I remember how my once
congressman
now my U.S. senator, "Chuck" Schumer used to talk like he really was
concerned about communities in Rockaway, N.Y. City who were being singled
out for concentrated overflights, while other wealthy, white communities
were being carefully avoided. Later we found out that Schumer has a cozy
relation****p with the leaders of those protected communities, like
Lawrence,
Long Island, even though they were not in his congressional district!!!
Now
that he is a senator, Schumer has been a tireless promoter of aviation
expansion in New York state. No doubt he has used his earlier connections
to
the FAA to help his airline industry friends, like JetBlue (JetBlue CEO
David Needleman pictured with Schumer on the left) and AirTran (formerly
Valujet), which he helped bring to upstate New York's Stewart Air****t. No
doubt Chuck will get a nice little campaign contribution (AKA bribe) for
his
very fat "war chest" from JetBlue. Schumer isn't up for reelection this
year
or I'm sure he would be pu****ng his "aviation has to be controlled" line
to
the dumped-on communities instead of his lobbying for air****t expansion.
Low Cost Airlines Increasing Global Warming At A Faster Rate!!! A news
story this week told about how there is increasing concern about aviation
increasing global warming faster than predicted. This is because of the
fact
that although the airlines greenhouse gases are small compared to
automobiles. High flying airlines emit these gases high into the
atmosphere,
where they stay a long time, has a dispro****tionately high impact on
global
warming. Aviation industry-lobbied governments response to this danger to
the whole earth is to exclude aviation industry emissions from even being
counted. Environmental groups, like Friends of the Earth, have protested
this exclusion and called aviation a "rogue sector and its environmental
impact is out of control".
European Union Excluding aviation From CO2 From Emissions Analysis? Last
year, coming under pressure from the business lobby, Gordon Brown, the
chancellor, and Alistair Darling, then trans****t secretary, called in
Eddington to advise the government on Britain's trans****t needs beyond
2015.
This is not the first time that an expert has been summoned to bail out
ministers. Lord Birt, the former BBC director-general, was commissioned by
Downing Street to produce some "blue skies" thinking on trans****t, but his
proposals for a new network of tolled motorways never saw the light of
day.
WHAT are environmental campaigners demanding from the government?
Emissions
have continued to grow under Labour despite a manifesto commitment to
reduce
carbon dioxide levels by 20% by 2010. Ministers are now focusing on
another
target to cut CO2 by 60% by 2050, but emissions from air travel will not
be
counted. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2426975_2,00.html
Newburg, New York: "Here Is JetBlue, Finally" Says Sen. Schumer!!!
NEWBURGH,
N.Y. - Wasn't it just the other day that U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer was at
Stewart International Air****t touting the arrival of a major low-cost
airline? That was Oct. 3 and the carrier at that time was AirTran Airways.
Schumer was at it again yesterday. Same place. Different airline. JetBlue
literally landed at Stewart International - in fine style. Its chief
executive officer, David Neeleman, flew up from John F. Kennedy
International Air****t - JetBlue's hub - in an Airbus A320. The 156-seat
passenger aircraft will take Hudson Valley residents daily nonstop to and
from Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and West Palm Beach, starting in December
and
January. "Surprise, surprise. Here is JetBlue - finally," said Schumer,
who
has wooed the company to come for Stewart for six years, as the plane
pulled
up behind him.
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061026/NEWS03/610260369/1029/NEWS13
Editor's Note: People in Newburg and areas surrounding Stewart Air****t had
better start lobbying for to get a night time curfew before they wake up
at
3AM and find that it is too late and the FAA says they can't change an
established time slot.
Airlines Could Quit EU Over CO2 Rules!!! LONDON - Airlines could relocate
out of the European Union if the European Commission decides to include
aviation emissions in Europe's carbon emissions trading scheme, the
European
Regions Airline Association warned Tuesday. The emissions scheme, which
charges industry for emitting carbon dioxide, should apply to non-EU as
well
as EU airlines in order to prevent EU airlines from being placed at a
competitive disadvantage, the ERAA said in a re****t. But ERAA spokesman
Simon McNamara said that for legal reasons the scheme would be difficult
for
the Commission to impose on companies based outside the EU flying in
Europe,
which might encourage airlines to relocate outside of Europe. "Are you
really solving the problem of (rising aviation emission), which is an
international issue, if companies are just relocating?" McNamara said. The
EU launched an emissions trading scheme in 2005 where governments set
limits
on the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted by industry, such as
electricity, steel and cement. Firms that stay within their limits can
sell
their spare emission permits to companies that have exceeded their limits.
The scheme was designed to ensure that Europe meets its target of reducing
carbon dioxide emissions by 8 percent by 2012 compared with 1990 levels.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8KV7SGG3.htm
American Trucking Association Incoming Chairman Killed In Small Plane
Crash:
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ill. (Oct. 27, 2006) - Clarence J. "Mac" McCormick,
incoming
chairman of the American Trucking Associations, was found dead this
morning,
the apparent victim of a single-engine plane crash in which he was the
pilot. McCormick was to assume the chair at ATA's Annual Meeting in Dallas
next week. It was the second tragedy to befall the ATA this year. Last
spring, the organization's popular vice president for public affairs, Mike
Russell, was killed in a rafting accident in Colorado. According to an
online news re****t by the Vincennes (Ind.) Sun-Commercial, McCormick's
plane
disappeared around 10:30 p.m. Thursday as it began its approach to the
Mid-American Air Center. The air****t serves the Vincennes/Lawrenceville,
Ill., area. The plane crashed about two miles north of the facility's
north/south runway. McCormick's body was found with the wreckage at about
10
a.m. today. McCormick, chairman and CEO of Vincennes-based Best Way
Express
Inc., was re****ted to be a skilled pilot.
http://www.thetrucker.com/News/Stories/2006/10/27/IncomingATAchairmandiesinplanecrash.aspx
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