MONTREAL — Formula One does things big.
At the Canadian Grand Prix , its race cars top 300 kilometres per hour. The track in Montreal amounts to a 305-kilometre contest over 70 white-knuckle laps. Past attendees include Rihanna, Al Pacino, Penélope Cruz and Tom Brady . Last year, a record 345,000 fans packed into the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
“The private jets obviously have an outsize impact, because a private jet is bringing so few people on it, so inefficiently,” said Thomas Green, a climate policy adviser at the David Suzuki Foundation. A private jet can emit two tonnes of carbon dioxide in a single hour, the organization states. Compare that with data from the Canada Energy Regulator, which says the average Quebec resident accounts for fewer than nine tonnes over an entire year.“When we look at global aviation passenger emissions, just one per cent of people cause 50 per cent of the emissions,” Green said.
Barry Prentice, who heads the University of Manitoba's transport institute, says the role of private planes in fostering business relationships, economic activity and tourism should factor into equations of their overall impact.“You need to meet in person for negotiations, as well as personally going and having a look — how is the factory doing? You can’t do that by Zoom.”“We’ve all been slogging through airports and going through the dismal process of security checks,” Prentice said.
The crowds downtown have only increased since a docuseries cranked up F1's popularity starting in 2019.The F1 teams, crews and other personnel alone — some of them in business jets — will number nearly 3,000 this weekend, according to the Canadian Grand Prix.
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