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 you do.
2 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 99 and 100. 99 you're at the
3 microphone. Please state your name for the record.
4 THE SPEAKER: Hello. My name is Lindsay
5 MacDonald (phonetic) (No identification card.)
6 I've lived in Bellingham for 26 years. I work at
7 Sehome High School. My concerns encompass all the things
8 that have been raised today by speakers, with such a wide
9 range of issues and problems as we feel this is wrong in
10 every way, the coal port.
11 But I'd like to raise -- the two things I'd like
12 the scoping to cover that I don't think have been mentioned:
13 One is that Puget Sound is threatened by
14 acidification and runoff from non-site points all through
15 our beautiful precious body of water.
16 Puget Sound has a narrow opening. It doesn't
17 flush very well.
18 When you scope this, please add the impacts of
19 coal dust to the cumulative effect of all the other
20 pollutants that are threatening marine life in the Puget
21 Sound. Don't take it as a single effect that you're
22 researching.
23 The other thing that I'm concerned about is the
24 effect of sonar noise pollution underwater on our orca
25 population, which is already threatened.