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GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. I
COURT REPORTER: GWEN BRASS PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012
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THE SPEAKER: Hi. My name is Andrew Eckels. I'm a
student at Western Washington University. I live on 1468
Franklin Street.
This quarter has been a little intense. I've been
learning about the global water crises. We are quickly
polluting, depleting, and wasting our most vital resource, and
the burning of fossil fuels is one of the largest contributors
to this global crisis.
One in seven people in the world currently do not have
access to clean, safe drinking water. They're forced to drink
water that's heavily polluted by industry such as coal and few
of them live to make it to my age, even much less make it much
farther.
During my lifetime it is projected that the number of
people in this world living under these conditions will rise to
one in every two people. When I think about the future, I'm
often scared. I'm no longer so sure that I wish to bring
children into this world.
I would like the impact that CO2 emissions will have
or that the impact of the CO2 emissions that would be released
from the burning of the proposed amount of coal would have on
the state of the world's glaciers, humanity's summer water
supply, upon the weather patterns that our production of food
depends upon and the level of the sea and the impact of -- on
humanity when the sea rises.
Please don't sell