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

11/3/2012
1 RHEA MILLER: Hello. I'm Rhea Miller,
2 former San Juan County Commissioner; from Lopez Island
3 at the moment.
4 I'd just like to be up to date for my
5 testimony. I do recommend that we take notice of the
6 fact that there was a 900-mile wide hurricane that
7 just happened on the east coast and we know that it's
8 scientifically and statistically proven that this is a
9 result of global climate change.
10 The biggest culprits for global climate
11 change are coal and oil. And these changes in our
12 climate don't pay any attention to country or state.
13 I'd like to have a study of the economic
14 impact on every taxpayer for the drought, the price of
15 food, the hurricane, extreme storms, the fire, the
16 warming of our water so that our orca whales are
17 starving from global climate change.
18 It's absolutely possible to increase jobs
19 and the economy in this area with clean fuel.
20 Secondly, I'd like to talk about the fact
21 that I served on the federal and state oil spill panel
22 that was -- I was appointed by the governor to that
23 panel. I spent time with the Vessel Trafficking
24 System in Vancouver.
25 I served with Michael Moore. And Michael
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