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 84
My concern is for my children. Our species here --
Is that my time?
MR. STURTEVANT: Thank you for the comment.
65, 66, and 67.
THE SPEAKER: Hello. My name is Kelly Grayum. I'm a
20-year resident of Bellingham, Washington. My father is
Michael Grayum, the executive director of Northwest Indian
Fisheries Commission. He's worked his whole life for northwest
tribes to encourage and -- he raised me on salmon and shellfish
and crab. It's our connection to the natural environmental.
I have a six-month-old daughter, and I would like to
give her that same legacy. With that in mind, I please ask the
scoping study take into account cumulative long-term impacts of
every aspects of this project, from mining, transportation,
building of the terminal, storing the coal, shipping of the
coal, and burning of the coal in China. All of which will have
huge negative and unmitigatable -- that's a word -- results on
our marine life that we depend on, not only for our food but
for our culture who we are as a people.
Particularly I'd like the study to include mercury and
other heavy metal particulate that are in our oceans. What
will the increased rate of cancer be based on the burning of
this coal?
As we know, it'll accumulate in the mother's breast
milk. How much cancer can my daughter expect to give to her