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 And I also have friends that work in China and
2 in Mexico, and they have given their lives to try to help
3 with health issues in those countries, and a lot of it has
4 to do with coal. They're trying to help, if they're going
5 to use coal, to use it so that it doesn't impact them as
6 much.
7 And we see in the United States that coal is
8 not the healthiest thing to use for heat and why -- why are
9 we then thinking it's okay to send it to someone else and
10 make a negative impact on somebody else's health?
11 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 28, 29 and 30. 28 you're at
12 the microphone. 29 and 30 you're at the desk.
13 Please state your name for the record.
14 THE SPEAKER: My name is Duane Jager. I live in
15 Bellingham.
16 And I, first of all, want to thank all of the
17 expertise of all of the folks that have come up here. I
18 don't have that expertise, but I do have commonsense.
19 And what I see is that burning coal was a 19th
20 century thing, the fuel of the Industrial Revolution. And
21 in the 20th century, we figured out that there's a negative
22 impact, and so we started having Environmental Impact
23 Statements.
24 But this is the 21st century, and we know that
25 burning coal contributes to global warming. It's a serious,