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 "s"'s on Douglass, and I work in Birch Bay.
2 I moved up here two years ago with my husband,
3 who's a computer architect for a large company and works for
4 a chain.
5 We have just opened our own business, which is a
6 software research company. We could easily leave this area
7 if the quality of life dropped. We would like you to look
8 at what the economic impact would be of technology companies
9 that are easily mobile, such as software companies -- would
10 have, if we left the area due to the environmental impact.
11 I'm also -- previous to this, I've had a history
12 of 40 years as an RN, including intensive care and
13 pediatrics and geriatrics. And I was a case manager for
14 people with CPD and heart failure.
15 I would like you to look at the cost in terms of
16 human suffering from the health impacts. I have seen people
17 severely short of breath. I have been a hospice nurse. It
18 is very difficult to control pain from shortness of breath.
19 Being on a ventilator is an act of human torture. We have
20 to knock them out and paralyze them.
21 So I really want you to look at, would you want
22 to suffer this kind of pain and suffering for the few jobs
23 that we'll actually get from this? The human suffering is a
24 terrible thing.
25 And I have taken care of babies that have died