Public Hearing - EISs for the Proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal ...

11/3/2012
1 nice? Respectfully submitted.
2 THOMAS CARTER: Tom Carter, registered voter.
3 My address is 545 Hemlock Court, Friday Harbor, and I've
4 been a resident here for 26 years.
5 And my first statement that I would like to make --
6 and I have this on good authority, but again, I don't
7 know that my information is correct.
8 So if I stand corrected, let that be as it may, but
9 I understand that the coal coming out of I think
10 Sheridan, Montana that is supposed to be exported through
11 the proposed terminal is what we deem dirty coal.
12 In fact, it's so dirty that you can't burn it unless
13 they add clean coal with it. That's how bad it is. So
14 that's how full of sulfurs and stuff that is not able to
15 be scrubbed out as easily, so we won't burn that coal in
16 this country.
17 And on this hypothesis, if I am correct, we are
18 shipping it overseas to China to burn there or to use
19 however they deem possible, which is probably to burn it
20 and mix it with clean coal.
21 The problem is not only are we sloughing off our
22 product that we won't even use here to somewhere else,
23 but we're giving it to a country who doesn't have the
24 standards that we have.
25 So that very thing, we are cutting our own throats
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