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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water of these ships, and deny the permit because the
potentials are incalculable and disastrous if they were to take
place; and that if permitted, the corporations involved should
be economically responsible for all damages for as long as that
damage continues.
MR. STURTEVANT: 57, 58, and 59.
THE SPEAKER: I'm Monica Aebly. I live in Fairhaven,
six blocks from the railroad tracks.
I'm very concerned about the health issues, human and
environmental health. I would like you to research how cancer,
heart disease, asthma, and other health risks will be affected
by air and water pollutant associated with the coal
transportation and exportation.
I'm concerned for all people along the train route and
those in Asia who will be burning the coal. Toxic air
pollution will cross the Pacific Ocean from Asia to the west
coast of the United States.
What would be the local health impacts of Powder River
Basin coal combustion here and in Asia?
I'm asking you to research cumulative effects of this
project on all this, from the states the trains will be going
through, to the people in Asia who would be burning this coal
and breathing the polluted air, to the west coast where we
would be receiving the air pollution, and finally to the
overall effect it will have on global warming, which affects