Bellingham Comments from Digital Recorder - EISs for the Proposed ...

GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. I
COURT REPORTER: GWEN BRASS PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012
Page 87
water to drink.
My request of you is for a comprehensive environmental
impact statement, an area wide impact statement that considers
all of the effects of this project from the coal mines of
Montana to the train lines of Spokane up the Columbia River to
the coal bus in Bellingham, shipping in the straits, and the
effect of burning this coal on earth's atmosphere, on the
salinization of Washington waters, and on mercury in our
glaciers.
I also ask you that this environmental impact
statement consider the effects of all of the coal terminals.
There are five proposed. This is but one. And if all five are
established and built, it will be catastrophic. Catastrophic
for the climate but especially catastrophic for the poor.
So please as you're considering the scope of this
hearing, include this entire project and, in fact, all five.
Thank you very much.
MR. STURTEVANT: 68, 69, and 70. Please come up.
THE SPEAKER: Hello. My name is Paul Schroeder. I'm
an anthropologist. I live in Blaine and have been in the
community for 30 years.
First of all, I'd like to make note of last year
Sunset Magazine declared Bellingham one of the top five places
to live in the west. It referred to it in the article as a
"seaside haven." Of course, that did not have anything to do