Please email each County Council Member individually.
If you have to email once, use this address: council@co.whatcom.wa.us
Message: Tell them how scared you are of the metal shredder and why the government needs time to make sure that the health and safety of the community, as well as the environment is taken care of. Be gentle and polite.
In order of importance:
District 1
Kaylee Galloway
kgallowa@co.whatcom.wa.us – phone: 360-303-1644
District 4
Kathy Kershner
KKershne@co.whatcom.wa.us – phone: 360-220-7535
At-Large, Position B
Carol Frazey
cfrazey@co.whatcom.wa.us – phone: 360-778-5024
District 5
Ben Elenbaas
BElenbaa@co.whatcom.wa.us – Phone: 360-778-5025
District 3
Tyler Byrd
tbyrd@co.whatcom.wa.us – Phone: 360-778-5021
District 2
Todd Donovan
tdonovan@co.whatcom.wa.us – Phone: 360-483-8474
At-Large, Position A
Barry Buchanan
bbuchanan@co.whatcom.wa.us – phone: 360-224-4330
At the very least we favor a moratorium to slow things down and give plenty of time to THINK and to GATHER FACTS. Anything built here will be there a LONG TIME, so let’s allow plenty of time for the process to work its way through the permitting process in a thoughtful and helpful way.
We favor a moratorium so that the situation can be thoughtfully, fully and carefully evaluated. Anything built as a result of this submittal will be there a LONG TIME and will have impacts for the bay and for pre-existing residential neighborhoods. We need to THINK CAREFULLY and proceed accordingly.
Best wishes!
ABC Recycling, however good their motivations are, do not belong in the Bellingham neighbourhoods. Its impact, noise, pollution and traffic do not belong to the vision us as inhabitants have for this city.
Hazards of metal shredders have been confirmed by EPA analyses multiple times resulting in revocation of permissions to continue operations even in situations where the shredders have operated within enclosures. There has been inevitable contamination of groundwater. And where the shredders are located in proximity to waterways, the adjacent waterways have shown exceedences of EPA standards for heavy metals, PCBs and especially dioxins. There is absolutely no justification for a shredder to be located within miles of a residential neighborhood. And it borders on criminal for a shredder to operate in an area (Little Squalicum Beach and Estuary) that has just been remediated from historic industrial pollution at great expense. How has this egregious violation of the health of our citizens been allowed to get this far? Where was the public discussion or the scrutiny of SEPA when a scrap metal transport and shipping operation was given permission to deface our waterfront and pose the very pollution problems that we had been working to overcome ever since GP decamped, turning over its toxic legacy for us to clean up expensively?