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 74
Those areas, the cost of making them safe to be accessible to
all of us, that waterfront belongs to all of us, all the
residents. We cannot be separated from it.
The noise, the rumble of those trains as they move
through town, I feel my house violently rumble when those
trains go by. At three o'clock in the morning I'm waken up
most every morning by some guy hanging on a horn as he comes
through town.
This is another case of big business getting all the
benefits at the cost of us citizens. Although my concerns
really do address local concerns, this terminal will have a
much wider impact, and the scoping process should include all
seven terminals being proposed on the west coast. It should
include all the distance back to Wyoming where this coal is
coming from.
Thank you.
MR. STURTEVANT: 55, 56 and 57.
THE SPEAKER: Dr. Harvey Schwartz, Bellingham.
Ten to twelve thousand years ago the retreat of the
ice age carved out Puget Sound. It filled with water, herring,
salmon, and Orca whales. The Lummi people settled on the
shores and created a life in balance with the sea for thousands
of years. We methodically stole their land and way of life.
Our rule of law constitution is only 200 plus years old, with
Lewis and Clark coming after that.
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