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 Institute, a local nonprofit.
2 I want to address an impact that I haven't heard
3 addressed yet. It's not really a direct impact, but it's an
4 indirect one that I think is relevant still.
5 And will be caused by people like myself who do
6 not believe that the Environmental Impact Assessment process
7 itself is legitimate because it's corrupt, and who will take
8 matters into their own hands if this terminal is, in fact,
9 put into operation and stop it using whatever means
10 necessary; whether that means putting their bodies on the
11 line or physically dismantling the infrastructure.
12 Now, this might be a surprise to some of you, but
13 I'm going to tell you why it shouldn't be. We've had an
14 environmental movement, hard environmental movement for the
15 past 40 years. If we look at the beginning of that, Rachel
16 Carson's book, Silent Spring, published in 1962.
17 We've had environmentalists for half a century,
18 and yet every living system on the planet has declined and
19 the rate of decline isn't subtle. There has not been a
20 single, peer-reviewed scientific article that's been
21 published in the past 30 years that contradicts that
22 statement.
23 What's happened over and over again is the
24 Environmental Impact Assessment is, basically, these
25 industrialists tutoring developers and industrialists on how