Comment EI-19804
Received or sent (printed as 1/10/2013)
In regard to the pending docket item brought by the Tongue River Railroad and its owners, Arch Coal, BNRR and Forrest Mars, Jr., I urge you to consider the following points in either denying the application or setting it over for further public hearing in Montana. First, I oppose the building of the Tongue River RR on any proposed route, including the latest iteration, in that the analysis of the climate change effects on MT and the US from burning the 1.3 billion tons of coal to be ultimately burned in Asia (or anywhere) will be dire. Second, the destruction of existing agricultural operations along the route (farming and ranching)and jobs in those long-standing operations, will be devastating to the generations-old community of local people in the Otter Creek Valley. This last-minute proposed change in route, along with prior route applications, should either be denied, or, due to the short-notice change in plans by the proposed RR's owners, put out to public hearing again in Montana, specifically in Colstrip, the merger point for the new route. Thank you for your consideration. Bob Adams Helena, MT
Submitted by: Bob Adams · Helena, 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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