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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There will be an increase of harmful emissions.
Please study particulate health effects on population
centers along all rail corridors.
Thank you.
MS. HULL: 42, 43, 44, 45.
And just so everyone knows, Randy Perry is now with
you from the Corps of Engineers.
THE SPEAKER: My name is Bonnie Barker. I live on
Hillside Road in Deming, in Washington. I'm here and I'm
concerned because I love this planet, our island home. I am
here because of the following speaker, the speaker who will
follow me, and the rest of my four children and I'm here for
the children in the generations to come.
James Hansen, who was the director of NASA Goddard
Institute for Space Studies in New York and a leading
atmospheric scientist and an internationally-recognized
authority on climate changes said, and I quote: Coal is the
single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our
planet. The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are
beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive
changes. Effects that will be irreversible if we do not
rapidly slow fossil fuel emissions over the next few decades.
He goes onto say: Our planet is in peril. If we do
not change course, we'll hand our children a situation that is
out of their control. One ecological collapse will lead to