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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am here on behalf of all of our children and all of the
children of the world and all the species of the world.
I am adamantly opposed to coal export proposal because
coal is a dirty, dangerous commodity, and if we make it easy
for China to burn this coal, we all suffer from more serious
impacts of global warming.
Just this month my friends in Wenatchee were told they
couldn't go outside because air is too -- unsafe because of
relentless fires, and these are directly related to coal.
We are already feeling the impacts of climate. Coal
burned in Asia would bring toxic mercury poisoning right back
here to the northwest.
And if that wasn't enough, all of us that live near
the tracks -- the three coal trains literally shake my house --
we have to deal with toxic coal dust. They cause cancer and
asthma, and I am sure that you as well are feeling there's way
too much cancer and asthma in our lives already.
My nieces and nephews deserve better. I implore you
to include in the scoping the impacts, the cumulative impacts
of all proposals from Montana and Wyoming to Bellingham to
Asia. Our children, all of children of the world, deserve
better than the coal export.
MS. HULL: Thank you.
And I have a few numbers that didn't come up, so does
anyone still have a green number who hasn't had a chance to