Comment EI-19884
Received or sent (printed as 1/11/2013)
Dear STB members-- We are writing to ask you to disallow the transport of coal from SE Montana across the Western US (and eventually to China and the Far East) via rail or any other route. Our desire is that neither the infrastructure to allow such tansfer, nor the permission be granted. Two issues loom large: * The smaller is the quality of life decline (noise pollution, air quality declines, repeated long road closures) for those having to put up with thousands of passing trains each year. ** The larger is the impact of putting this much carbon into the air. Climate change is real and our society should be doing everything it can to minimize its impact. As the STB you have the potential to make an impact, to help our society make a stance and a statement, to say No" this is not the direction we want to go. Thank you for considering our thoughts Scott Bischke and Katie Gibson Bozeman, MT"
Submitted by: Scott Bischke
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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