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 is proposed.
2 I wanted to share with you my own personal impact
3 statement -- or study I've done. This is my granddaughter.
4 She's 11. Her name is Elisa. Elisa is bright. She's
5 artistic, likes gymnastics. She also has asthma.
6 I'm concerned about what the impact on her would
7 be of having a coal terminal within three miles of where we
8 live. I'm also concerned that if she had a respiratory
9 event, how the train traffic would affect an ambulance or
10 getting her to an E.R.
11 Also, she loves to go down and play in our whole
12 area. There's a resort, kind of, Birch Bay environment.
13 She loves to go to The C Shop and get ice cream. I wonder
14 about the trade-off from jobs from our tourist-like
15 environment for jobs to export coal.
16 It's hard for me to see people wanting to come to
17 Birch Bay for vacation and having to wipe coal dust off of
18 their cars. I thank you for your time.
19 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: Is 65 here?
20 Okay. We'll take 66. If 65 comes back, we'll
21 take them then. Will 67 and 68, please come to the desk.
22 66, please state your name for the record.
23 THE SPEAKER: My name is Cathie Bertola, and I'm
24 a mother of two wonderful children here in Bellingham, and
25 I'm a graduate student at Western Washington University. I