Comment EI-19157
Received or sent (printed as 12/20/2012)
I live in Birch Bay, WA, and in the same way I am opposed to the Gateway Pacific Terminal project, I object strenuously to the plan to haul coal from Otter Creek via the Tongue River Valley, enroute to Asia. The new permit now being considered by Arch Coal calls for approval of an 83-mile long rail line from the Otter Creek Mine to Miles City, where it would join the main rail line that goes to the West Coast. Once this coal gets burned it will add about 2.6 Billion tons of greenhouse gases (CO2)into an already overloaded, warming atmosphere, leading to further catatrosphic climate change. Please study this impact and also study the disruption it will cause in hauling Montana's current commodities. Consider further how this project will bisect ranches in the area - through the power of eminent domain and permanently transform the rural Tongue River Valley into an industrial coal extraction zone.
Submitted by: Christine Westland · Blaine, Washington
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