Comment EI-19130
Received or sent (printed as 12/4/2012)
I am not a scientist. But I do live on the same planet as everyone else and I do understand that we are all connected in ways that some folks are not paying attention to. It’s about the air we all breathe when it comes to burning more coal. No matter where it’s burned; Asia, Montana, New Jersey or England, it affects my house, my spaceship. This little spaceship does not have a large vacuum system for dirty air. My question is: Why are we contributing to this disaster by continuing to extract this proven dirty and costly fossil fuel? Coal that is sub grade and disallowed in this country because of EPA protections is going to return to us in about one week of burning, compliments of China, in the form of arsenic, mercury and other pollutants in Montana air. I don’t care where it comes from; Otter Creek, MT or Eagle Butte, Wy,. The end result is the same for Montanans: increased pollution, more train noise, more traffic delays in fact as many as 8000 cars a day, increased costs (the folks in Montana will bear-not the railroad) for overpasses, underpasses and rail crossings, more diesel fumes and increased health issues for all of us. Short term thinking has long term consequences! China gets the dirty energy, Wall Street gets the profits and we pay the bill. A recent AP article noted that China is the worlds biggest polluter (about twice as much as the US)--before we send them dirty coal from the USA. If you have children or grand children they won't thank you for rolling over to this big money scheme. Use your heads and do the right thing for this country!!!
Submitted by: Larry Hops · Bozeman, Montana
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