Comment EI-19496
Received or sent (printed as 1/7/2013)
Dear Mr. Blodget, I am a board member of Sustainable Edmonds and I speak for the whole organization. We oppose construction of coal ports in the whole region. Edmonds is a coastal town that would be greatly affected along with many other communities if mile and a half coal trains pass through town, cutting off access to part of the city and disrupting ferry traffic. We are concerned about health issues due to due dust and diesel exhaust, noise pollution and a general decrease in the quality of life. Edmonds has a high percentage of senior citizens, many of whom, live near the tracks, which is also directly across the street. We are concerned about derailments as a good portion of tracks along Puget Sound pass by high unstable hillsides. Due to heavy rains the past few months, we have had nearly a hundred slides and even a freight train was hit and 7 cars toppled off the tracks south of Everett. A coal train derailment would land in Puget Sound and even could land in our Edmonds Marsh where migratory birds pass through and threatened species rest. A derailment would be a death knell for the marsh. Lastly, our biggest concern is that if all this coal gets to Asia, (up to 150 million tons), the greenhouse gases would pollute the air and hasten climate change. But all the exhaust doesn't stay in Asia. It is blown to the northwest where mercuric coal markers from Montana have been found in the sediments of lakes in Washington I/we ask you to review our concerns and consider all impacts near and far, especially for the people and communities any additional trains would pass through. Thank you. Richard Bisbee, for Sustainable Edmonds
Submitted by: Richard Bisbee · Sustainable Edmonds · Edmonds, Washington
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