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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THE SPEAKER: I want to thank the speakers. Thank you
guys and the ones that aren't here for getting up here. This
is really hard. And I hadn't planned to do this, but I had to
because I put this hat on and it looks like everyone's over 40.
And I don't know about you guys, but I feel pretty old after
40. And -- if you think about it. And so now
we've got our Corps representing legal, we've got our County,
our State Department, but I don't see NEPA. Where's the global
environmental impact person? Why is there somebody here from
Australia talking about this in Bellingham because interest in
the scoping -- I don't know how you guys do this, but we want
you to do this.
If you have to think of Lummi and you have to put the
cumulative impact of five coal-burning terminals in Asia, five
terminals here that are shipping from here and the Colorado
River Basin.
When I was born, the CO2 were -- right now it's 391.
Before that, it didn't get above 300. So we're on this steep
climb, and impacts of this, you've heard them all today.
Our shellfish in Chuckanut Bay where the coal trains
are going to go by, they can't grow the larvae here anymore
because the water is becoming acidic.
Thank you.
Next speaker, please. 92. 91. I'm sorry.
THE SPEAKER: I'm 92.