Comment EI-19639
Received or sent (printed as 1/8/2013)
NO to turning the Otter Creek valley into a massive open pit coal strip mine to feed demand for dirty coal in Asia. The proposed Tongue River Railroad and Otter Creek Mine are dependent on each other. Arch Coal leased 1.3 billion tons of coal in the Otter Creek area. It has told the state it wants a permit for an even larger area, over 18,000 acres in total. If that coal is dug up and hauled off, the inevitable burning of the coal will result in over 2.6 billion tons of greenhouse gases going into an already overloaded atmosphere. Suggested comments: This last minute bait and switch should not be tolerated. That because of the new route, it should reopen the public comment period and hold a hearing in Colstrip. To analyze the devastating effects climate change will have on Montana and the nation and to analyze harm to existing agricultural operations and livelihoods along the new route.
Submitted by: Leslie Smith · Bellingham, 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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