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
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with coal trains coming through the area.
I'm a scientist, and I look at the evidence that this
terminal will propose. One of the articles in the paper, one
of the editorials, I should say, in the paper by a person who
was against people who were against the terminal said that
those of us that were against it were looking at gross
exaggerations, hyper emotionalism, and that we were a people of
mass hysteria.
We look today at the global issues, and this is an
issue that goes beyond Bellingham. Global warming is a
national -- or international fact. People, scientists
throughout the world have supported that. Ice core samples
have shown that C02 ratings are the highest they've been in
800,000 years.
But let me address some of the economic issues of
this, that global warming causes major weather events. And
these major weather events, last year in 2011, for the first
time, ten separate weather events cost more than a billion
dollars each.
The acidity of the oceans caused from this is causing
a drop in fishing which affects 100 million people throughout
the world who depend on that. As a matter of fact, 20 to
25 percent of the animal protein of all --
MR. STURTEVANT: Thank you very much for your comment.
I would remind if you would like to finish your