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 your name for the record.
2 THE SPEAKER: Megearn Noland, Bellingham resident
3 for about seven years and San Juan Island. Resident for
4 about 16 years before that.
5 Hi. First I'd like to say thank you all for
6 listening. I know it's been a lot of information to take
7 in.
8 I did not do any research in time to make an
9 informed comment, so that's why I wasn't going to make one.
10 But after listening to everybody else, I just really felt
11 that what I could offer was that when you go into your heads
12 and your hearts to figure out how extravagant this EIS is
13 going to be, I would offer that you take the time to really
14 be able to put yourself in the place of everyone and
15 everything that's going to be affected.
16 I, myself, I don't have any children of my own,
17 but I am and auntie to a few, and I'm sure that you all have
18 children, too.
19 And I am afraid that not only will this project
20 affect their direct physical health, but I'm also afraid it
21 will affect their very belief in -- in us as an example for
22 them -- as a body of adults that they look up to.
23 And I feel as though we do not want to be setting
24 the example for our children that it is okay to decimate our
25 land in the long term just for a short-sighted amount of