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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entertainment is just downtown, right, right by the train
tracks. Which I think is the reason why the train is such a
bad idea, especially for our community and like to -- the spa,
for instance, which is yards away from the train tracks. And
it just seems terrible to have a luxury spa that some people
frequent have 18 mile-and-a-half-long trains going by each day.
And, you know, today we worry about air
pollution and walking as opposed to driving and all that jazz.
So what I wonder about the coal trains is what would
the air pollution be like even without coal dust? How much
emission would be given off just by the trains in our
community? And that is what I'd really like to be investigated
further.
Thank you so much.
MS. HULL: Thank you for your comment.
We have our next speaker.
THE SPEAKER: Hi. My name is Liam Walsh. I am a
senior at Western. I was born in Seattle. I grew up across
the water in Ireland and came back for my senior year of high
school and to go to college here.
And I didn't choose Bellingham because of the weather.
I chose it for a certain way of life. I mean, the people that
are attracted to Western Washington University, to Whatcom
County, we all come here for a specific atmosphere of
progressive sustainability. You know, our logo is "active