Comment EI-19502
Received or sent (printed as 1/7/2013)
Dear Mr. Blodgett, I write to express concerns about the Otter Creek Mine in Montana and the proposal to expand this mine and re-route the rail shipping. The negative impacts on Montana and all along the railway are enormous. Even now, as the coal trains pass the Yellowstone River, the dust blows off like smoke and settles in the river, which is one of the most vital waterways in Montana. We don't need to destroy our land, air and water so that these coal companies can get rich by exporting coal to China. We ought to be limiting coal and really expanding clean (i mean CLEAN not clean") energy sources. Why has there not been a public comment period for the new route? It appears the railway and coal mines are skirting the public's right to be involved in this issue, an issue which the public has for many years spoken out very strongly against (along with opposition to the expansion of the Otter Creek coal mine). It's China's job to come up with their own clean energy. It's NOT our job to be their energy colony and let our own nation be ruined by dirty coal, coal dust, contaminated water and acid rain from the coal burned in China."
Submitted by: Laura Ferguson
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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