Comment EI-19852
Received or sent (printed as 1/11/2013)
The environmental impact statement for the Tongue River Railroad should include analysis of how the power of eminent domain would be applied. The criteria of public convenience or necessity needs to be measured against the actual harm to the public caused by this railroad. The public will be injured by air pollution, especially diesel particulates. The public will be injured by climate change caused by CO2 emitted when the coal is burned.
Submitted by: James Plunkett · Portland, Oregon
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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