Comment EI-19715
Received or sent (printed as 1/9/2013)
This proposed railroad is not for the public convenience and necessity" and the Tongue River Railroad Company should not get the power of eminent domain and condemnation for a railroad that does not serve the public interest. This railroad would serve only one huge coal company, Arch Coal, and its customers in China and other Asian countries. None of the coal wold benefit U.S. utility customers or the U.S. public interest. The Tongue River Railroad would 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 muse be mined, hauled by trains fueled by diesel to West Coast terminals, shipped overseas b ships fueled by diesel, and then hauled in China to the plants."
Submitted by: Daniel M. Leahy
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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