Comment EI-19259
Received or sent (printed as 1/5/2013)
The proposed coal transportation rail line via the Tongue River Valley is antithetical to US strategic, environmental and public interests. The Department of Defense already considers climate change as a seriously destabilizing element for the near-term and long-range future. Coal burning advances this problem. Environmentally, the American public is implicitly assuming a significant financial and health-related burden by virtue of the negative exteranalities" implicit in the project. These include loss of tourism revenue, pollution from mining and transportation-related activities and clean-up costs. Stated otherwise, this proposal is for private profit which is publicly subsidized. For these and a plethora of other reasons, it should not be allowed to advance."
Submitted by: Keith Comess, MD
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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