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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lived here all my life. And this is a twist of turn here now,
and I'm glad because I don't want to be embarrassed.
I signed up for this because I wanted a job for my
children and my friends because I have a lot of people that are
unemployed. And so therefore I signed up for it. Now I come
here to apologize to everybody because I love -- I love my
place. And I don't want it destroyed. And I think that we can
rise up and find jobs for our friends and our family if we put
our minds to it and we don't give way to any corruption that
continues out.
So, therefore, thank you for letting me apologize that
I -- I signed up for this. And I'm sorry I did. Because I
stand firm and, see, I don't get the newspaper or TV and I
don't listen to the radio, so I'm in the dark. I'm a recluse.
And when I heard this was going down --
Thank
you.
MS. HULL: Oh, you have time.
THE SPEAKER: Oh. When I heard this was going down, I
wanted to come to hear the truth. And I did.
Thank you very much.
MS. HULL: Thank you for your comments.
Can we have the next speaker, please.
THE SPEAKER: Wow, I don't know if I can follow that.
My name is Judith Akins, and I live in Bellingham, I enjoy
eating fish. And then I began to think about fish and what's