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 passes and the car that's on the side of you starts up again
2 you hear all this, "bang, bang, bang, bang, bang," as the
3 cars start moving again, so it makes it real difficult for
4 us to get good sleep at night.
5 We have a little rental house on our property.
6 And our renter, who's been there for 35 years says that if
7 the train goes through, the coal train continues to go
8 through at 18 times a day that he's going to have to move,
9 so that will be an impact on our ability to keep our place
10 going.
11 I'm just one small person, and I don't have a lot
12 of expertise like many people here do today, but there are
13 so many of us all along the trail, along the rail line
14 between Wyoming and Cherry Point.
15 There are a lot of us little folks who aren't
16 influential, but we, certainly, will be impacted and I'll
17 just urge you to take the noise into consideration.
18 Thank you.
19 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: And No. 50, please state your
20 name for the record.
21 THE SPEAKER: My name is Karen Bloomquist, and
22 I'm a pastor/theologian. And I live just outside of
23 Bellingham. I join my voice with many of the others that
24 have been raised here. I, especially, want to focus on the
25 issue of the crucial importance that the impact of shipping