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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going to happen to our fish, and then I was thinking about
jobs. And I would like you to study the impact on the fishing
jobs in the area, in the Salish Sea area. And then also to
study the jobs that are related. I go and buy my fish down in
Slater Road, and what's going to happen to those people who are
processing the fish? I want clean jobs, but there's going to
be a lot of people that are losing jobs because of the
contamination that this will cause.
Thank you.
MS. HULL: Thank you.
Can we have speaker number 83.
THE SPEAKER: Hello everyone. My name's Heather
Chapin. I live in Bellingham. I care about the ability of all
humanity to continue to live on this one earth that we have
been given.
So addressing the panel, I would like the EIS to scope
the impact of coal mining on ground water and surface water
pollution, CO2 emissions released from tree-cutting to mine,
and the particulate emissions as it relates to mining itself.
I would also like the EIS to scope the cumulative
impact of rail transport from the Powder River Basin to the
west coast as it relates to coal dust pollution, economic
impacts of increased train traffic through local towns along
the way, levels of automobile pollution that will increase due
to idling at railroad closings, the impacts to the biophony,