Comment EI-19013
Received or sent (printed as 11/8/2012)
It is imperative that you consider the climate change impacts of digging, hauling, and burning 1.3 billion tons of coal. The analysis must consider the possibility that a new rail line could lead to the digging, hauling and burning of other coal resources in the area, contributing even more than the projected 2.6 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions that will result from the development of the Otter Creek tracts alone. I also urge you to consider the countless lives of animals and plants that will be lost as a direct result of strip mining and laying new tracks through their habitat.
Submitted by: Carol Makela · Bellingham, Washington
The Board publishes this comment in its environmental-comment table for this proceeding. It is quoted here as printed; nothing is inferred from it, and it states the commenter's own position in their own words, not this record's.
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