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
Page 69
There are many, many impacts, as you've heard today,
and it's very difficult to pick just one. But I am going to
ask you to please study very carefully, very seriously, and all
good science the impacts of heavy metals, particularly mercury,
cadmium, selenium, lead. We know these are all not good for us
and there is stuff written out there. It's not that hard to
find. But we really need to know what it's going to do not
only to my health, the health of all my neighbors and loved
ones all up and down the track.
This stuff will go in the air, in the water. It's in
the coal, whatever form you see it in, and we're going to pay
for it. We, not only human beings, but all the living
creatures on this earth.
Thank you very much.
MR. STURTEVANT: Okay. 50, 51, and 52.
THE SPEAKER: Hi. I'm Robert Johnston. I live at 816
- 14th Street, Bellingham. I'm a native of the Pacific
Northwest. I've been around to see our fish runs decline, our
species lost, and the environment decline over the last 60
years. This is a great tragedy.
I want you to study all the things others have
mentioned and to do it in a programmatic, comprehensive EIS.
I've stood up today because I want to make sure you
include in the EIS a careful study of the impacts of two
components of Powder River Basin coal that are really lesser