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 greater global community, and we see -- we're sympathetic
2 towards the needs of those all around the world. We see
3 that our choices have serious implications around the world.
4 The costs of the Gateway Pacific Terminal
5 wouldn't be seen the first day when we extract that coal
6 from the Powder River Basin. They wouldn't been seen,
7 first, either when we freight that coal to Bellingham or one
8 of the port cities, proposed cities, and we ship that to
9 China.
10 It wouldn't even be seen when my children are
11 growing up. It will be seen generations and generations to
12 come. And there's no way for us to focus just on the
13 community.
14 But I urge you to look globally, to think of the
15 global implications and the contributions the Gateway
16 Pacific Terminal will have for climate change on our globe
17 because I believe if you look at the true costs of
18 extracting, transporting, and burning that coal, you'll see
19 that the costs and risks are entirely too high, and I urge
20 you to please consider those implications. Thank you.
21 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 64, 65 and 66. 64 you're at
22 the microphone. 65 and 66 you're at the desk.
23 Please state your name for the record.
24 THE SPEAKER: My name is Jamie Douglass. I live
25 in Birch Bay, so just north of the site where the terminal