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
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need to protect life, we must prepared to escalate.
Nearly a year ago, 12 people were arrested in Bellingham
for laying down on the train tracks and blocking a coal train.
And they said they'd let the Amtrak go through because they
didn't want to inconvenience people. But they didn't want the
coal to go through. We need to prepare for that. We need more
of that.
I want to end with a short story. East of Portland on
the north side of the Columbia, there's a small tributary
called the Washougal River. There was a damn built on this
river in 1919, and the night it was completed the damn was
blown up. That damn has never been rebuilt, and the river is
still free-flowing until this day.
Thank you.
MS. HULL: Thank you.
Next speaker, please. 77, 78, and 79 come forward.
THE SPEAKER: My name is Terry Garrett. I have lived
in Whatcom County for 30 years. I moved around a lot. I've
lived in 17 different locations. I've -- I'm 60 years old.
I've been a professional scuba diver for most of my life, since
I was 18, and I'm very familiar with the waters in this area.
One of the things that's required as a scuba diver is
to check your driving cylinders every five years with a
hydrostatic test. There's a pipeline very similar to the one
that blew up June 10, 1999, right here in Bellingham that runs