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

11/3/2012
1 was not made general public knowledge.
2 They also billed it as a great economic boon. What
3 happened was the plant became mechanized right from the
4 very beginning, and all those jobs that were promised
5 were not necessarily lied about. There were jobs in the
6 beginning. There was an economic boom as they built the
7 plant.
8 But as soon as it was built, the jobs dried up
9 because it was done. Those projects are ran with
10 highly-technical people. You don't go in there as an
11 entry-level high school diploma and expect to get a job.
12 Unfortunately, too many people in these communities
13 need a job. They need jobs for their kids. They see
14 these things.
15 And instead of seeing the realization that those
16 jobs will be imported from places where they have the
17 education to run those things, it doesn't necessarily
18 mean that the local plant will start up like they had 30,
19 40, 50 years ago with the saw mills and those industries.
20 It's a different industry now, and that's what I wanted
21 to say. Thank you very much.
22 TIM WHITE: My name is Tim White, and I live
23 here in the San Juan islands. I have family that goes
24 back many generations here, but for what I have to say, a
25 newcomer can say it the same way.
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