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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I'm concerned that the Fairhaven area and the impact
on the Village Green. How we encourage tourists, people to
come and stay?
I am concerned about the negative fiscal outcome from
all those businesses. Like my friend Ken said about a business
even considering a lease option for something that's not going
to even happen supposedly until 2020.
Please
study the impacts of the Ski to Sea race and celebration,
something that promotes healthy -- X many wonderful things and
how that would be negatively affected for our Whatcom County.
Is it time?
MR. STURTEVANT: Thank you. Yes.
62, 63, and 64. 62.
THE SPEAKER: Thank you all for hanging in there and
thank you for listening so carefully to all of us.
My name is Darla Buchmeier, and I live in Birch Bay.
I haven't heard any other people say they live in Birch Bay.
I'm a registered nurse and a grandmother of three children
under the age of five who live in -- within the five-mile
fall-out zone of the huge coal dust storage facility that's
suggested. I'm really very concerned about the effect
breathing this polluted air and the environment around my
grandchildren's play area. There is no level of degradation of
air quality tolerable to these young children.
Please study exactly how this is going to affect the