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

11/3/2012
1 As far as the impacts go, we're in a situation where
2 here in the San Juans, more than construction now,
3 there's the tourism industry. I have many friends that
4 are kayak guides. The worst thing for kayak guides is
5 big ships.
6 They drop those microphones down in the water to
7 give the visitors a chance to hear the orcas, and you
8 hear that mmm. Even when you can't see the ships, mmm,
9 that's all you hear down there.
10 They don't come back. They don't tell their
11 friends. It's going to sink our economy here so far as
12 the tourism industry goes.
13 So far as the other things in the construction
14 industry, Rain Shadow, which is a solar energy here, by
15 burning this coal we are keeping the cost of carbon-based
16 energy low and eliminating and stopping the growth of
17 jobs here in the alternative energy industry right here
18 in San Juan County.
19 ANGIE KRIEGER: My name's Angie Krieger, and
20 my husband and I own Crystal Seas Kayaking here on San
21 Juan Island, and we have 20 employees.
22 And so what we do to our business is we take people
23 out kayaking into the various islands out here in the San
24 Juan Islands.
25 And so what we see as an impact for us personally is
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