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

11/3/2012
1 MIKE KAILL: My name is Mike Kaill. I'm a
2 retired salmon researcher from the state of Alaska.
3 I've lived here about 20 years and participated in a
4 lot of researching kinds of things, environmentally
5 kinds of things.
6 I have been sitting in the back listening to
7 these comments, and I've really been impressed with
8 all of the data and the points that have come out.
9 And the more I listen the more I would line out things
10 on my own talk until my talk is shaved down pretty
11 good right now.
12 I want to tell you that first of all, first
13 of all the chances of global warming being a function
14 of just normal weather patterns has been calculated to
15 be about a thousand to one. So there is global
16 warming; the storms that we've seen, the desert
17 conditions, all this stuff is -- it's happening.
18 And the worst part about it is is this is
19 only the beginning. It's going to continue and max
20 out somewhere depending on how much stuff we put into
21 the atmosphere, which brings me to the coal.
22 I wondered why, given this kind of a thing,
23 we're not only digging up our own coal, but we're
24 digging up coal to sell to China, and then they can
25 burn it, and this will be just gas on the fire for
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