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 So I want to talk about two reasons why I want
2 you to consider an EIS. One is local, one is global, and
3 they're all personal.
4 So I used to live three blocks away from the
5 train tracks in Seattle. I moved only three weeks ago
6 because the diesel pollution was so bad, the noise from the
7 train throughout the night was so bad, and the train tracks
8 crossed my bus line twice, so it prevented me from getting
9 to work on time pretty much ever.
10 And all of those things combined and on top of
11 the fact that the train tracks are actually across the
12 street from where the small business are in the neighborhood
13 -- I live in Georgetown, Seattle -- basically it prevented a
14 lot of businesses from being able to thrive in that
15 location.
16 So now I'll talk about the global reasons. I'm
17 Filapina, and I still have hundreds of family members --
18 yes, hundreds -- in the Philippines.
19 And every year, there's typhoon season, but every
20 year, it's got increasingly worse to the point now where
21 water sources are so scarce that kids literally fight each
22 other in the street to have water.
23 It is so bad that I can't imagine that we could
24 do anything that would impact the climate without
25 considering what would happen to countries all across the