Comment EI-19903
Received or sent (printed as 1/11/2013)
The Tongue River Railroad project should be denied. This is due to the fact that, if built, it would create only adverse environmental and social impacts on the people of Montana and the Northwest. These impacts include, but not limited to: imminent domain of property, severed wildlife corridors on the Tongue River, air and water pollution due to coal dust, increased greenhouse gas emissions from idling vehicles at railroad crossings, increased anxiety level for those communities in close proximity to the railroad tracks and climate change impacts such as intensified droughts and floods across the World. This coal being shipped along the Tongue River serves only the Corporations that extract it. Otherwise the Montanans, Idahoans and those living in Washington State bear the heavy environmental costs. For your children's sake, do not permit this railroad to be built. Sincerely, Christian Meny
Submitted by: Christian Meny · Missoula, 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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