Comment EI-19204
Received or sent (printed as 1/5/2013)
Please do not approve the building of this railroad line to carry coal to the coast and export it to China. It is an abuse of eminent domain, because this line is purely commercial and against the public interest. The public is organized to oppose this huge increase in coal trains all the way to the coast, and in every city where expansion of terminals for the coal is proposed. The US has cut back and is moving toward the elimination of burning coal because of its devastating impact on the environment. But that impact is exactly the same whether the coal is burned here or in China. Ground transportation? The ongoing drought in the Midwest has brought the level of the Mississippi River so law that it is interfering in shipping. Floods, wildfires, and superstorms are all causing billions of dollars in damage. The burning of coal is responsible for much of the climate change causing these extreme weather phenomena. If our leaders are responsible, they will soon agree on limits to carbon emissions worldwide, putting this railroad out of business shortly after it is built. If they are unable to agree, then we are in for worldwide disaster, all traceable back to the carbon emissions of coal, oil and natural gas, but especially coal. The world's scientific community is united and increasingly trying to ring the warning bell before it is too late. Ignoring them to make some more money for coal companies is greed over public interest. Please don't approve this application.
Submitted by: Carol Marsh · Missoula, Montana
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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