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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Jill MacIntyre Witt. I live in Bellingham and am raising two
daughters.
I'm also a life-long residence of planet earth, one of
now seven billion bearing witness to the changes on our earth
and our climate due to the burning of fossil fuels.
North America's largest proposed export terminal is
clearly a bad idea. Shipping 48 million metric tons of coal to
Asia to burn equals unprecedented costs next to paling
benefits. One pound of coal burned results in 2.8 pounds
released into the atmosphere. That's CO2.
48 million metric tons burned annually for this
project equals 296.8 billion pounds of CO2 released into the
atmosphere. As CO2 in the atmosphere increases, so does the
temperature. Every national academy of science of every major
country in the world confirms anthropogenic or manmade global
warming. The national academy says, "The need for urgent
action to address a climate change is now disputable."
"We are a planetary emergency," NASA scientist James
Hansen said last month.
It is morally unacceptable to ignore the climate
changes and the effects of coal shipped from our shores. The
time to act is now. The permitting agencies are not
corporations. You are people. People with the intellectual
clarity about the greatest challenge humans have ever faced.
Please study the impact of increased CO2 emissions