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 this huge enterprise on what is currently a remarkable
2 creative and healthily interconnected community. To destroy
3 that quality of life and commonness of trust and
4 interconnectedness would be a travesty and cost us dearly.
5 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 58, 59, and 60. 58 you're at
6 the microphone. 59 and 60 you're at the desk. Please state
7 your name for the record.
8 THE SPEAKER: Hello. My name is Tom Brenton from
9 Whatcom County, Bellingham. I will speak to you about
10 something I know, certainly.
11 I'm not an expert on anything very specific. I
12 know buildings and indoor health and indoor environmental
13 air quality.
14 But I'll talk to you about my son. He lives
15 directly next to the tracks. He has been affected exactly
16 how some healthcare officials have spoken about. His
17 concentration, his sleep habits; he's developed dyslexia,
18 all of this is coming up since he has moved next to these
19 tracks because of sleep deprivation, and he's also developed
20 respiratory conditions, from what I can only assume are the
21 particulates.
22 So I'm asking the EIS to include, along the
23 entire rail system, not just here, to look at every
24 household's occupants and the indoor air quality of those
25 households, and the health effects upon the occupants,