Comment EI-19040
Received or sent (printed as 11/19/2012)
Approval of the Tongue River railroad will have a major impact on our way of life, the health of our communities, and our economy. We don’t want more dirty coal trains clogging up our rail lines, disrupting our communities, and displacing the hauling of Montana’s agricultural commodities. The environmental analysis should include a full-blown environmental impact statement that comprehensively considers the environmental and economic impacts this line will have on climate change, agricultural operations, communities, and rail transport. 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.
Submitted by: David J Ellenberger · Wheat Ridge, Colorado
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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