Comment EI-19328
Received or sent (printed as 1/5/2013)
Docket No. FD 30186 Attention of: Mr. Ken Blodgett The environmental impact statement for the proposed Tongue River Railroad should analyze the following: PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY- The proposed railroad does not meet this standard IMPACTS ON PROPERTY VALUES- the proposed railroad will cause fires, spread weeds, devalue especially waterfront property and will make ranching and farming more difficut and potentially harm the communities where the train passes WILDLIFE- The Tongue River Valley is rich in wildlife habitat and home to outstanding elk and mule deer populations as well as upland birds. Industrializing this valley with a railroad and the coal strip mine it serves will seriously degrade this excellent sportsman resource. NOISE- Forget quiet enjoyment" with a constant trail of trains! INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRAFFIC: TAXES will rise on communities along the rail lines and traffic delays and pollution will abound The Tongue River Railroad will allow coal that should stay in the ground to be burned in dirty Chinese plants and will fuel intolerable, decades-long increases in Carbon Dioxide emissions. The greenhouse gas costs of Otter Creek coal go far beyond just burning the coal. It must be mined, hauled by trains fueled by diesel to West Coast terminals, shipped overseas by ships fueled by diesel, and then hauled in China to the plants."
Submitted by: Zena Hartung
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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