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 SPEAKER: Oh, okay.
2 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 26 and 27 and 28. 26 you're
3 at the microphone. 27 and 28 you're at the desk.
4 Please state your name for the record.
5 THE SPEAKER: David MacLeod. I'm a lifelong
6 resident of Bellingham.
7 I'm concerned about the increased acidification
8 of coastal waters due to the fugitive coal dust from a coal
9 pile that would be at Cherry Point due to the ship loading
10 process, and I'd like this to be scoped.
11 In addition, I'm concerned about carbon dioxide
12 emissions from burning coal in China, and from coal
13 transport, and its effects on ocean acidification. I would
14 like these impacts to be scoped.
15 I'm also concerned about the contribution to
16 climate change from coal shipped from a Cherry Point
17 terminal to be burned in China. And I would like these
18 impacts to be included in the scope, and also, the
19 cumulative impacts of all proposed coal terminals on the
20 West Coast. Thank you.
21 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 27, 28, 29. 27 you're at
22 the microphone, 28 and 29 at the desk.
23 Please state your name for the record.
24 THE SPEAKER: My name is Nancy Hoffman. I'm a
25 lifelong Pacific Northwest resident. I live here because I