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 In August of this year, 80 percent of the United
2 States had a drought condition.
3 Additionally coal burning is increasing global
4 warming and thereby causing more frequent floods, which
5 already include -- will increase corn, wheat, rice, and
6 sugar prices. We need to decrease malnutrition and
7 starvation in poor countries.
8 At the local level in China, there are areas
9 where the people are protesting because of the construction
10 of new coal plants. China is in the course of building a
11 pipeline to get natural gas from central Asia to China.
12 Shipping and selling coal to China now will delay
13 their shifting to natural gas from central Asia so the
14 (inaudible.)
15 So what we are doing and what is SSA doing to
16 mitigate increased starvation and poverty in developing
17 countries? And I hope the EIS can do this.
18 (Inaudible above due to heavy-accented speaker.)
19 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 43, 44, and 45. 43 you're at
20 the microphone. 44 you and 45 you're at the desk.
21 Please state your name for the record.
22 THE SPEAKER: My name is Judith Culver. I live
23 west of Ferndale in a beautiful, agricultural, and forested
24 area just three miles from the proposed Gateway Pacific
25 Terminal.