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 We should not have to be standing here trying to
2 justify our desire that our future generations be able to
3 exist in a livable world.
4 Yesterday's power source is oppositional to
5 innovating for a better quality of life.
6 Thank you.
7 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 71, 72, and 73. 71 you're at
8 the microphone. 72 and 73, you're at the desk.
9 Please state your name for the record.
10 THE SPEAKER: Hi. My name is Bruce Kraig, and I
11 have lived in Bellingham for 27 years. I lived about 200
12 feet from the tracks for about 26 years now.
13 I just want to start on the global sense, that
14 healthy ecosystems are vitally more important for sustained
15 life on earth than healthy economies.
16 And next, I want to say that I'm honored to enjoy
17 the miracle of life in the sacred homeland of the Lummi
18 people, and I want to honor them. This GPT will be built on
19 their most sacred land. It will have a huge impact on the
20 quality of the earth and the sky and the water on which they
21 depend.
22 For a little while, I would like to take a moment
23 of silence for all the destruction that European immigrants
24 have done to the Lummi people over the last 150 years.
25 (Speaker pauses in a stance for silence.)