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

11/3/2012
1 by coal burning as well as coal being transported through
2 our area.
3 I've been a naturalist on whale watching boats, and
4 I'm concerned about the impacts on endangered species,
5 both killer whales and the salmon, and believe that all
6 of that should be fully addressed in an environmental
7 impact statement. Thank you.
8 TIM WHITE: I'm here talking today as a white
9 male construction worker in the San Juan Islands. My
10 mother's mother's mother and her mother came out on the
11 Oregon Trail. My stepdad Larry Shawl was born right here
12 on what's now Synergy Farm on San Juan Island. His
13 grandfather built that barn there, so I have roots here.
14 I'd like to address the construction work aspect of
15 this project and the effects on work. I'm seeing here at
16 this meeting -- this is the day of the meeting on Friday
17 Harbor. There are -- these signs say build jobs here.
18 Well, for our job market here in the San Juans and
19 my community, we are not within commuting to any of these
20 temporary or permanent jobs in Bellingham. They're very
21 local there.
22 So far as my community is concerned, those
23 construction jobs might as well be in China, so that's
24 one of the impacts is that there's not jobs available for
25 people here by this project.
Seattle Deposition Reporters, LLC www.seadep.com * (206) 622-6661 * (800) 657-1110 Page: 21