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GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. II
COURT REPORTER: BETH DRUMMOND PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012
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1 developing fetus, and I don't think there's been enough
2 research.
3 I realize that your purview is our county.
4 But, nationally, I don't think that people are
5 paying attention because who's going pay for a study on in
6 toxic neurology, when these corporations stand to benefit by
7 ignoring it?
8 In 42 years that I've been a schoolteacher -- and
9 any other schoolteacher can claim and recognize this as a
10 fact -- we have had higher incidents of autism; bipolor-ism,
11 we've had it in children. We've had behavioral problems
12 with ADHD, and the only thing that people can come up with
13 is that something is wrong in our environmental system.
14 And we have people worrying more about organic
15 foods; we know about air. We know about people -- people
16 tell us there's a percent in everything, but we don't know
17 that that's a fact.
18 And we know that coal makes heavy metals. We
19 don't know what that's going to mean cumulatively. Somebody
20 else talked about the cumulation of -- the cumulative effect
21 of the coal. The insecticides; we can add that. We can add
22 sulfates in our soap suds.
23 We don't know, but the fact is we should find out
24 because something is happening to the neurology of our kids
25 in this country. And nobody seems to give a rip, and I hope