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 Also, I'd like to state that was a study recently
2 released that those folks -- I'm talking to you that are
3 pro-coal terminal:
4 You have a three times higher cancer rate. I'm
5 sorry to tell you. I'm done. Thank you.
6 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 85, 86, and 87.
7 85, please state your name for the record.
8 THE SPEAKER: My name is Richard Navas. I live
9 and work in the County of Bellingham.
10 Every year the cost of promoting climate change
11 denial gets higher and higher for the carbon industry.
12 Someday, that cost will get so high that they will say
13 they've had enough, and they will pack up their jobs;
14 they'll pack up their profits; and they will leave town.
15 But they'll leave us with an immense cleanup,
16 very expensive, huge cleanup, globally and locally.
17 100 years from now, our great grandchildren will
18 still be paying for the few jobs we may see today. We don't
19 want those kinds of jobs. Thank you.
20 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK. Excuse me. I'm still chasing
21 someone down.
22 Please state your name for the record.
23 THE SPEAKER: Hello. My name is Elizabeth Hines
24 (phonetic)(No card available.)
25 I'd just like to say with respect to our First