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GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. I COURT REPORTER: GWEN BRASS PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012 Page 79 MS. HULL: 59, 60, and 61. THE SPEAKER: Good afternoon. My name is Alex Ramel. I live at 2308 Woburn Street in Bellingham. Thanks for the opportunity to comment today. The impacts of greenhouse gas pollution are well documented. Increasingly volatile and erratic weather, droughts, melting ice caps, sea level rise, desertification, and acid oceans. Here locally we can expect that weather changes will dramatically effect farmers who are adapted to current climate conditions, salmon fisheries that count on cool streams, and shellfish that don't do well in acid sea water. This project will make those impacts worse. It's important, therefore, that the scoping include the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on the project site, as well as upstream emissions and those -- and downstream pollution. The entire reason for being for this project is to facilitate the burning of coal in Asia. The project exists to catalyze that transaction, and so the impacts of the whole transaction belong in the EIS. Burning 48 million tons of coal per year will result in about 137 million metric tons of CO2. By way of comparison, that's more than 30% more than all of the emissions from all the activities in the entire State of Washington in 2008. This is important because Washington State has established, by law,
GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. I COURT REPORTER: GWEN BRASS PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012 Page 80 greenhouse gas reduction targets and those should be the basis for the analysis of the mitigation standards in the EIA. Thanks. MS. HULL: Okay. 60, 61, and 62. Is 60 here? Okay. Move 60 to the end. 61? THE SPEAKER: Thank you for taking on this monumental task of being on the committee and making this process respectful. My name is Susan Ediger Blum. I live at 2601 Valencia Street, Bellingham. I moved here in 1999 looking for work as a teacher and found the county so full of educators, it took me two years to get my first teaching position. Why? Because people love living here and don't leave. They love living here for so many reasons, but the one I hear most frequently is people love the water, mountains, hiking, biking and such. These same aspects also bring tourists. Please consider the tourist industry as an alternative job creator for our area. I'm requesting the committee to include a study on the negative impacts on tourism for Whatcom County and waterfront business areas. I'm concerned about the access the emergency vehicles will have to the Bellwether Hotel area when train frequency goes up. Who wants to pay to stay at a hotel that has trains going by every hour of the night, even if it is a gorgeous place to stay?
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