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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the local communities but to corporations and cities. The high
speed jobs rarely go to people. They go to people who are out
of town. The low-skilled lower-paid jobs also don't increase
local employment but rather poach from our industries having
impact on other industries in the area.
At the same
time, the costs are usually significantly undervalued. Million
of dollars in tax payers subsidies going to subsidize all the
companies, going to subsidize the fuel costs and several tax
breaks for corporations.
All of this comes at a cost to our environment and our
communities. At the -- along the tracks, with the ships in the
shipping lanes, and I urge you to consider the full scope of
the issues in front of you and entertain consideration of how
these impact.
Thank you.
MS. HULL: Thank you.
Next speaker, please.
THE SPEAKER: How are you, brave sitters? And hello
to all of you too. I actually want first to say -- oh, my name
is Brooks Anderson, and I live in Whatcom County.
I first want to address what I found outside this
morning before you let us in. I was putting up signs opposing
the coal terminal, and I had several young men swear at me and
tell me take those signs down. After that I -- then four or
five carloads of the proponents of the terminal came by and put