Comment EI-19811
Received or sent (printed as 1/10/2013)
The proposed coal transportation rail line via the Tongue River Valley is antithetical to US environmental and public interests. The DOD already considers climate change as a seriously destabilizing element for the near-term and long-term future. Coal burning advances this problem. Environmentally,the American public is implicitly assuming a significant financial and health-related burden by virtue of the negative exteranalities" implicit in this project. These include loss of toursim revenue, pollution from mining & transportation-related activities and clean-up costs. Stated otherwise, this proposal is for private profit which is publicly subsidized. For these and multiple other reasons, it should not be allowed to advance."
Submitted by: Barbara Comess, MD
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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