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

11/3/2012
1 there is a five percent private maximum, and capacity
2 improvements.
3 Other costs to be included are those of the
4 traffic delays on business opportunities and
5 productive time. Costs due to decreased property
6 values both due to increased train traffic at
7 different times than occurs now, and also due to the
8 coal pollution from the uncovered storage by all the
9 neighboring communities over there.
10 The costs of the lost redevelopment
11 opportunities along places like the Bellingham
12 waterfront and other areas that have increased impacts
13 from the maximum number of trains.
14 The costs of delays on emergency services
15 both in human life and in just other costs there too.
16 The costs of health impacts from particulate
17 matter due to any pollution in China, wherever it's
18 burnt, also here in the United States where it is
19 extracted, as well as coal dust shipping emissions,
20 things like that.
21 Costs attributable to responding to climate
22 change. This may be a significant cost, as we've
23 learned from Sandy recently. So those costs due to
24 that 141 million metric tons. Costs responding to an
25 oil spill. The costs associated with lost ecosystem
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