Comment EI-19663
Received or sent (printed as 1/9/2013)
This proposal is a very bad idea. We are experiencing the warmest winter here in the state and the cause is global warming. Now we want to add to that by approving this proposal. Let's be smart about our future. 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.
Submitted by: Roger Sherman · Whitefish, Montana
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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