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 Van Zandt and Acme.
2 We can't mitigate the negative effects in
3 Bellingham out to the South Fort. If it's bad for
4 Bellingham, it's bad for the South Fort.
5 And I want to issue a quote from the National
6 Environmental Policy Act, which created the EIS process in
7 1970, and it says:
8 "That the nation may fulfill the responsibility
9 of each generation as trustee of the environment for
10 succeeding generations."
11 That's our job.
12 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 42, 43, and 44. 42 you're at
13 the microphone. 43 and 44 you're at the desk.
14 Please state your name for the record.
15 THE SPEAKER: My name is Tova Vandervern
16 (phonetic) (handwriting illegible) from Bellingham. I
17 worked for about 30 years in developing countries to help
18 them increase their food production.
19 This year the production of wheat in Russia
20 dropped by 20 percent; those taken wheat crop by 40 percent
21 with no productions. India suffered a 22 percent less crop
22 resulting in a 7.8 million tons loss from constant rice
23 production.
24 Rice production dropped in Cambodia, Korea,
25 and -- (inaudible).