Comment EI-19904
Received or sent (printed as 1/11/2013)
The new coal-hauling line in the Tongue River Valley will increase train traffic, noise, diesel emissions, flooding, traffic delays, negative impacts to wildlife, negative health impacts to humans, increase sprawl, fires and spread weeds. It will also devalue property, infringe on property rights by making farming and ranching unnecessarily expensive and splitting ranches up. It will also significantly contribute to global warming, and does not serve the public purpose, but rather the pocketbooks of Arch Coal. I want all the above issues studied in the EIS, not just individually but how they relate to one another. In additions please use Dr. Tom Powers' (MSU Prof. EM. of Economics) White paper on Coal Exports and Tom Sansillo's work on fossil fuel subsidies in the U.S, as well as the Whatcom Docs (WA ST, Whatcom CT) position paper on coal-exports and health impacts in helping you to study all the impacts mentioned above. I agree with the letter written to Mr. Ray La Hood, and Mr. Ken Blodgett from the WA Dept. of Ecology Director Ted Sturdevant dated 1-4-2013. I request those concerns in that letter be studied in the EIS.
Submitted by: Laura Ackerman · Spokane, Washington
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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