TESTIMONY
Chelsea Resident on the Environmental and Social Impacts of Private Helicopter Transportation
3:22:31
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4 min
The speaker expresses concerns about the endorsement of electric helicopters as a solution to climate change.
- They argue that private transportation, especially helicopters used by the wealthy, contribute significantly to carbon emissions and environmental damage.
- The speaker highlights the carbon-intensive production of electric vehicles and their reliance on fossil fuel-powered plants for charging.
- They raise awareness about the environmental and human rights issues involved in mining raw materials like cobalt and lithium for batteries.
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3:22:31
Thank you for your stamina, by the way, and also your public stamina.
3:22:36
I'm sorry to say that some of your panel has left, and I'm sorry to say that the industry shills and the EDC had left because they're unbelievable.
3:22:47
I live in Chelsea.
3:22:49
I commute every day by bike up to Hills Kitchen past the Hill of Port.
3:22:53
The in the park, the agriguously named, very important persons, teleport, from which the trust makes a revenue, which they consider.
3:23:05
Necessary, which is really pimping our health and safety.
3:23:11
But I don't wanna repeat all the complaints to everybody's made because I agree with it completely.
3:23:17
I'm alarmed at the endorsement and the enthusiasm about electric helicopters because electric transportation, I'm sorry, is not going to be an answer to to climate change.
3:23:33
We're two miles out from an environmental train wreck.
3:23:38
And electric public transportation?
3:23:40
Absolutely.
3:23:42
But private transportation and especially hell of copters, which are used exclusively by wealth, whether they're corporate business or private, that the problem with electric vehicles is that the production and the materials are carbon intensive.
3:24:01
They depend on being charged from fossil fuel plants.
3:24:06
More terrifying are the environmental and human rights issues involved with the extremely toxic lining of battery raw material.
3:24:15
Most of us are not aware that cobalt and Lithium Mining are becoming a neo colonial nightmare for poor populations.
3:24:25
Reenacting the pillage of oil extraction, and involving child slavery, deadly wage slavery, and devastating pollution.
3:24:38
Let's not waste our labor, our health, and our innovation and our children's lives on the deadly privileges, wealth demands.
3:24:49
Thank you for your work.
Amanda Farías
3:24:53
Thank you, folks, so much for your testimony.
3:24:56
This panel is dismissed.
3:24:58
I'd now like let's call it Philip Turner, John Wilkins, Sydney, Garcia, Woodgren, and Christopher Woodgren.
3:25:30
You can begin when you're ready.
Philip Turner
3:25:32
Thank you.
3:25:33
Pam, council members.
3:25:36
Gil Brewer was my council member for a long time.
3:25:38
Now Sheldon Brayu is, and I'm glad to have them both.
3:25:41
I know how long Gales worked on this issue.
3:25:44
Helicopters fly over my upper west side neighborhood near Riverside Park, Dan Knight.
3:25:49
This morning, I got a earlier than usual.
3:25:51
It was 6:25.
3:25:52
There was already a helicopter flying near me.
3:25:57
It just Mars our quality of life so much.
3:25:59
I ride my bike along the Cherry Walk along the Hudson River.
3:26:03
Recently, one ride, I counted 6 flights in 15 minutes.
3:26:09
Low flying Oh, crap.
3:26:12
Were terrible.
Bill Thomas
3:26:12
Perfect.
Arline Bronzaft
3:26:13
Okay.
3:26:13
To Sydney for Sydney, New York.
Amanda Farías
3:26:16
Can you stop the clock for a second?
3:26:21
Go ahead.
Philip Turner
3:26:21
I'm sorry.
3:26:22
I don't even know if I need my full 2 minutes because I've heard so many eloquent people speak this morning.
3:26:27
I was disturbed by the minimizing of this problem by the industry officials and the ill preparedness of the members of the administration, which really disappointed me.
3:26:42
So thank you for everything you're doing.
3:26:43
I don't need my full 2 minutes because we all know the truth.