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 AUDIENCE MEMBER: Why don't you write your
2 statement instead of --
3 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: Excuse me, sir. I need to
4 keep it quiet, please. Excuse me, sir. Thank you.
5 I'm going to do this a little bit out of order.
6 I'm going to take No. 89 and then 90 -- we have two 91s.
7 I'm going to take 89, and then 91A and 91B. So
8 89, please state your name for the record.
9 THE SPEAKER: Hello, my name Esther Faber. I
10 live in Bellingham, Washington. My concern is this:
11 I used to have some -- I used to have asthma
12 attacks when I came to Bellingham. I no longer do.
13 My son, however, lives a mile from the tracks,
14 and I'm concerned that I may -- and I'm getting asthma as a
15 result.
16 My son currently does have asthma attacks and had
17 had to go to the emergency a few times. That brings us to
18 two issues:
19 One, is that he was a quarter mile from the
20 tracks. And I'm concerned about the coal dust, the diesel
21 particulate matter that will come from the engines and the
22 effects on his lungs, and, also, the emergency vehicles that
23 he might need in order to get to the hospital to save his
24 life.
25 The other thing I want to -- I want you to study