Bellingham Comments from Digital Recorder - EISs for the Proposed ...

GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. II
COURT REPORTER: BETH DRUMMOND PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012
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1 you fill out a card so I have an address for you.
2 So let's have 1, 2, and 3.
3 1 at the microphone; 2 and 3 at the desk and the
4 chair.
5 When you come to the microphone, please state
6 your name for the record, and we will start the time.
7 THE SPEAKER: Sara Mostad. Thank you very much
8 for this opportunity to talk with you and for holding this
9 public hearing.
10 AUDIENCE MEMBER: A little louder.
11 THE SPEAKER: I'm Sara Mostad, and I'm a board
12 certified internal medicine doctor practicing in Bellingham.
13 I also hold a Ph.D. in public health from the University of
14 Washington, and I'm mother to three young daughters and an
15 active volunteer in the Bellingham public schools.
16 Today I'm speaking on behalf of 205 physicians in
17 Whatcom County and Skagit County. Although we are a
18 politically diverse group of professionals who live
19 throughout Whatcom and Skagit counties, we were brought
20 together for the fundamental concern of the people in our
21 region: Our patients, our children, our neighbors, and,
22 truthfully, people throughout the state, as a vast majority
23 of our population lives within ten miles of the rail line
24 throughout the state.
25 As physicians, we are concerned with the