Bellingham Comments from Digital Recorder - EISs for the Proposed ...

GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. I
COURT REPORTER: GWEN BRASS PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012
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abandoning our moral and ethical behavior in business and
commerce and in good citizenship by trading with the Chinese
government in the coal industry.
If we cooperate with this behavior, what will keep us
from abandoning those same moral, ethical behaviors in business
and commerce and in good citizenship in our own community?
I'm asking you to examine the psychological health
impact on our community of abandoning the democratic values,
giving away our mineral resources, and risking our
environmental health when we ship our country's resources, in
this case coal, to a totalitarian country that abuses the
rights of the individual.
Thank you.
MS. HULL: Next speaker, please. Number 30. 29. I'm
sorry.
THE SPEAKER: My name is Philip Hernandez. I live at
1800 Texas Street, Apartment 21, in Bellingham, and I'm not
ashamed to say that I like trains and I like these coal trains
and I like the coal terminal. But not at any cost.
First of all, coal has been shipped safely across this
country for well over a hundred years, from the Powder River
Basin for decades. We have this information. Why is it any
different now?
Coal dust is a problem. The -- has already complained
about it in Wyoming. Let's see what they have to say about it.