Comment EI-19016
Received or sent (printed as 11/9/2012)
While the need to create jobs in our economy is understandable, I strongly oppose the mining, transporting and shipping of our coal resources to the west coast and then to Asia. There are many reasons for this, but paramount among them is the level of disruption it will bring to our rural community. Numerous school buses, aid cares, 911 responders, and fire trucks pass countless train crossings in our rural county. A quick response means everything. Unless coal producers/shippers are willing to take responsibility for the loss of life and property OR are willing to fully fund mitigation required (something with no precedent) the impact will be insurmountably negative. Of course the risk of ocean spills, bilge dumps, diesel and coal dust with accompanying heavy metals, noise at each of the dozens of crossings, loss of revenue and jobs that might otherwise result from attempts to develop Bellingham Bay, etc. are to be considered as well.
Submitted by: Leaf Schumann · Deming, 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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