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

11/3/2012
1 to methylmercury, a potent and persistent brain poison.
2 Moving through the food chain, methylmercury
3 concentrates in fish. When consumed by a pregnant woman
4 or by a young child, it harms developing brains, causing
5 loss of IQ, learning disabilities, forgetfulness,
6 attention deficits as well as balance and coordination
7 problems, but who eats fish?
8 SUSAN KEY: Many speaking here today have
9 focused upon the significant, unavoidable adverse impacts
10 of this project. I agree and add my voice to the
11 concerns.
12 That said, I'd like to focus upon job creation and a
13 reasonable range of alternatives. We have the technology
14 to develop alternative energy production, including wind
15 and solar.
16 We have the technology to merge these types of power
17 generation with existing electrical transmission grids.
18 Imagine the number of jobs that would be created by
19 giving tax breaks to companies that manufacture, install
20 or maintain alternative energy facilities from large
21 regional projects to small single-family households.
22 Take the thousand or so projected jobs created by
23 building this terminal in Bellingham, add the hundred or
24 so created by mining coal, and add the hundred or so
25 created by increased rail activity.
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