Comment EI-19525
Received or sent (printed as 1/7/2013)
Greetings, I am deeply concerned about the potential impact on public health and the environment from the various proposals to transport coal from Montana and Wyoming to terminals on the Pacific Coast for export to Asia. The proposal to build a coal-hauling railroad line through the Tongue River Valley seems especially misguided for two main reasons: 1) it would have negative impacts on the residents, the quality of life, and the environment in the Tongue River Valley; and 2) it would contribute to similar negative impacts for the residents, the quality of life, and the environment in the Pacific Northwest in general. I am against these coal terminal plans 100% Here in the Puget Sound region, we citizens are working to create a living model that is healthful, bio-diverse, and sustainable as well as repair the damage down by shortsighted, careless peoples of the past, and these coal terminals do not fit into our model in any way. To let this project go forward would be an overall travesty. 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. Please act with mindful consideration for the long term and sustainability and conservation. Don't allow our Orcas, our forests and our wildlife to be compromised. Thank you, john seeburger
Submitted by: John Seeburger · Lakewood, Washington
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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