Bellingham Comments from Digital Recorder - EISs for the Proposed ...

GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. I
COURT REPORTER: GWEN BRASS PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012
Page 90
So if we have all these trains, that's going to block
this beautiful freedom to go to fresh air and sanity.
So I want you to study the jobs we lose from tourism versus
if we take the money from building overpasses and underpasses
and lakeshore railroads. If we put that to fix up the Pacific,
the jobs that we are going to create, long-term jobs, and
tourism is one of the best money makers long term that we can
create.
And for us so we can have a green beautiful place and
keep inviting more tourists coming in and have a healthy
beautiful place and stop global warming from coming into this
place --
MS. HULL: Thank you.
Next speaker, please.
THE SPEAKER: My name's Monty, and I live in
Chuckanut. I was born here in 1955. I'm a salmon fisherman at
this point. In 1975 I worked for the railroad as a freight car
man. I would like the scoping thing to include brake tests.
The railroad has got the high iron now just uphill from my
house. They replaced over 50 percent of the tires in April.
I've been smelling creosote ever since. Was that a unique
area? No. They've upgraded it for this massive freight
already. It should have been included.
My concerns at this point are loss of fishing area.
There is a Homeland Security Encroachment Patriot Act, where if