Public Hearing - EISs for the Proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal ...

11/3/2012
1 which is quite pesky. And, again, the international
2 piece of it needs to happen, not just response from only
3 one side. So if we can figure that out, that would be
4 great. Thanks.
5 SARAH HANSON: I would like to know what
6 evidence there is that supports the actual numbers of job
7 creation being higher with this than if we allocate
8 resources toward environmental stewardship jobs, farm and
9 agricultural conservation and preservation, and
10 alternative health and alternative energy industries.
11 That's all.
12 JANA MARKS: My name is Jana Marks. I moved
13 to San Juan County 36 years ago to raise my family in a
14 remote outer island setting on Stewart Island.
15 We lived without a telephone or electricity and had
16 a boat to come to market instead of a car. For 15 years
17 we crossed from Roche to Stewart to the Roche Harbor area
18 to access services and the outer world.
19 We watched salmon race into the reef nets outside
20 Reed Harbor, and the orcas pass by our south-facing
21 waterfront almost every day in the summer.
22 Our view was directly down Haro Straight, so we also
23 watched a steady stream of cargo ships heading north or
24 south. At night when you didn't see the ships, you heard
25 them rumbling, some clanging as they endlessly chugged
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