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

11/3/2012
1 by having that very coal that we won't burn because it
2 isn't clean enough sent back to us in the form of
3 pollution.
4 And I don't know if that comment was made, but to me
5 that seems pretty ironic that we live in a world where
6 the economic dollar is more important than the air
7 quality and the world we live in, which seems to be
8 what's happening.
9 My second point is that I've heard the statement
10 many times that this project will bring jobs to the
11 Northwest, and I'll tell you what happens with big
12 mechanized business.
13 It brings jobs for infrastructure when they build
14 it, but I lived years ago in Ferry County, Eastern
15 Washington. They started a plant there that was supposed
16 to be a wood-fired plant, but luckily for them it had
17 coal scrubbers in the stacks.
18 They brought it under the guise that this would be a
19 boon for the community because wood-fired products that
20 came out of the woods as slash and unsellable timber
21 could be sold to this plant. It's right at the base of
22 the Kettle Falls.
23 But luckily, they put in these coal scrubbers, so
24 any time they wanted, they could turn it into a
25 coal-fired plant. The public was not aware of that. It
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