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 need to make a living. Thank you.
2 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: Ms. Roger. You're not a
3 number.
4 THE SPEAKER: I'm not a number.
5 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: Please state your name for
6 the record.
7 THE SPEAKER: My name is Holly Roger, and I work
8 at a private school.
9 But I also work for a local nonprofit
10 organization called Wild Whatcom, and I do family programs
11 crucial for families all over Whatcom County.
12 And two places that we explore every year, are
13 Marine Park and Boulevard Park. And what we don't know as
14 families, is -- how the impact of those places being cut
15 off, for our social and environmental health, concerns me
16 greatly. Did you know we had sea otters at Marine Park?
17 Raise your hand if you do. That's right.
18 My other concern is coal dust on our drinking water; with
19 that being part of the assessment, I would love to see how
20 that works. Thank you.
21 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK Ms. Harris, please state your
22 name for the record.
23 THE SPEAKER: I'm Wendy Harris. I'm a Bellingham
24 resident, and I'm going to ask that you consider carefully
25 the mitigation that's being proposed with regards to