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 evaluate the noise impact thoroughly, and quantify how the
2 increased noise would be expected and how many individuals
3 will be impacted by that. Thank you.
4 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 63, 64, and 65. 63 you're at
5 the microphone. 64 and 65 you're at the desk. Please state
6 your name for the record.
7 THE SPEAKER: Hello. My name is Alex Epstein.
8 I'm an organizer from Fuse Washington.
9 I'm here to urge you to consider the impacts, the
10 cumulative impacts, of all ports that are proposed, as well
11 as the impacts that it will have on climate change.
12 Since I was 18, I've had the opportunity to work
13 with countless young activists from 35 different campuses
14 throughout this country.
15 I've worked with sons of coal miners in West
16 Virginia and I've worked with daughters of coal workers.
17 I've seen a lot of different issues. I've run
18 campaigns for president -- for presidential elections as
19 well as my generation.
20 And I've seen across this country, there's one
21 issue that my generation is willing to risk their life for:
22 And that is the issue of climate change. That is
23 the issue that we are going to be fighting for. It's our
24 generation's fight.
25 We live in a global generation. We're part of a