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 the Sound, Rosario Sound. And my impression is -- I want to
2 know what happens to that dust that comes out of the
3 existing plant?
4 We're going to have a plant even closer to us
5 where farmland is to the east of the wind -- all of that
6 good farmland; the jobs that entail that farmland -- all of
7 the dust going all over Puget Sound and what's happening.
8 We've had a lot of speakers talk about what
9 happens to the water quality; what will happen to our fish
10 and all of this loss that that entails. So we got a lot of
11 jobs that might go as a result of all this new coal plant.
12 Anyway, thank you.
13 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 20, 21 and 22. 20 you're at
14 the microphone. 21 and 22 you're the desk.
15 Please state your name for the record.
16 THE SPEAKER: Hi. My name is Eleanor Hines, and
17 I've lived in Bellingham for eight years now. I moved here
18 from the East Coast, and I absolutely love it.
19 I am currently a grad student at Western
20 Washington University studying environmental toxicology
21 focusing on mutual risk assessment.
22 And so I would like to -- I'm also an avid
23 outdoor recreationist, so I would like to voice that I,
24 additionally, have the same concerns that everybody else has
25 had here today.