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 local economies, diverting public funds away from
2 much-needed infrastructure and essential programs and
3 services.
4 The taxpayers cannot afford to absorb such risks
5 and high costs.
6 Please heed the requests of concerned residents
7 and produce a thoroughly scoped, programmatic Environmental
8 Impact Statement, including all rail-related impacts the
9 proposed GPT and other coal ports would cause. Thank you.
10 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 62, 63 and 64. 62 you're at
11 the microphone. 63 and 64 you're at the desk.
12 Please state your name for the record.
13 THE SPEAKER: My name is Richard McClenahan. I'm
14 a board certified family physician in Bellingham, and I'm
15 speaking in my capacity as a primary care physician, who
16 daily treats chronic illness, such as cardiovascular
17 disease, asthma, and cancer.
18 I'm also speaking as a member of Whatcom Docs,
19 which we've heard earlier, is a group of 205 local
20 physicians, who were unified for the purpose of insisting
21 that this process -- which you have been given the awesome
22 responsibility for -- included a rigorous and comprehensive
23 evaluation that will impact human health by this project.
24 It has been a surprise to those of us that have
25 educated ourselves about this, that historically, impacts