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 work with the school district as a substitute teacher. And
2 I hear quite a bit about children and their development;
3 it's really important to me.
4 Um, I love this place. I could live a lot of
5 other places, and I have. I've lived here for 20 years and
6 I intend to stay here.
7 I was part of a focus group for that -- as a
8 save-the-marine sponsor. They never told us anything about
9 coal. They just wanted to know how we felt about this
10 terminal that might be built.
11 I wish I'd known about the coal. I would have
12 probably said something a little different than I did, but
13 my -- the big vision that came to my mind as a mom and one
14 of my children has special needs, is how many accidents are
15 going to be -- how much human life is going to be lost along
16 the railway?
17 So what I really want to have looked at, is
18 between the Powder River Basin and here, how many deaths
19 occur along the railway -- that's people walking; that's car
20 accidents -- every year.
21 And then we are going to need to project if more
22 trains are coming through, how many deaths will result and
23 how many injuries will result. And I want to see that
24 information made public.
25 We don't hear about all the traffic accidents