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 come down the spokes tank, then attach a variety of other
2 things like benzene, like formaldehyde, like polyatomic
3 aromatic hydrocarbons, really bad things.
4 This is bridging 485 ships, some of which are the
5 largest objects ever created by man, to our community, 485
6 of them, transits in our community.
7 It's bringing a train every hour with four
8 engines in it. That's 100 locomotives every day through our
9 community, and they're burning diesel, which creates a huge
10 amount of pollution.
11 Now, I'm worried about my patients. I'm worried
12 about my family. I've got written comments that summarize
13 most of that.
14 But I want to talk about the process with you,
15 and that is, having all these people in this room and a much
16 larger room next door, that want to talk to you that have
17 been given two minutes and limited to 100 people, is
18 unreasonable. You're not bad people, but this is a bad
19 process.
20 And I want to focus on that. You need to listen
21 carefully to the people. The people that are here that I
22 know, are scared spitless, okay? And I'm not talking to
23 them. I'm talking to you guys, because you're the ones that
24 are here this morning.
25 You need to open up the process. You need to