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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farm, he worked as a coal miner near Lake Whatcom. He later
died of black lung. And there is still no such thing as clean
coal. Lake Whatcom has now become the sole source of drinking
water for the county.
Because of mercury poisoning, five-year olds are not
supposed to eat the fish, adults aren't supposed to eat it more
than once as week, once a month, I don't remember what the
latest science of that, so we'll reserve it.
The other thing is that we need to look at if there's
no longer any acceptable risk, you know, that's what the
nuclear power industry's trying to tell us, that, you know, it
would be so rare that there would be any problem with it, and
yet we now have nuclear -- we have an ongoing nuclear power
port in the Pacific Ocean for months and no way of stopping it.
And so we cannot trust these people who think that
there's -- we tend to think we're superior to other animals,
and we're the only one capable of destroying the planet. It's
nuts. You can't eat, breathe, or drink money, and we have to
base our decisions on that. There's no room for error anymore.
Thank you.
MS. HULL: Thank you.
Number 97, please.
THE SPEAKER: Hi. My name is Joy Patterson. I live
at 3218 Firwood Avenue in Bellingham. I oppose this terminal.
If money were no object, we wouldn't be having this discussion.