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

GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. II
COURT REPORTER: BETH DRUMMOND PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012
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1 analysis that have no control of the decision-making
2 process. Thank you.
3 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 7, 8, and 9. 7 you're at the
4 microphone. 8 and 9, you're at the desk.
5 Please state your name for the record.
6 THE SPEAKER: Thank you. David Stalheim.
7 When you look at the determination of
8 significance for this project, it has a list of all of the
9 elements in the environment that need to be studied by this
10 EIS. What is missing out of that, is any consideration of
11 economics.
12 So when we talk about jobs, we talk about the
13 impact on the economy. There's no clear pathway in this
14 Environmental Impact Statement for that to be considered,
15 and that's a shame. And it really needs to be added to this
16 whole process.
17 How it has to be added to the process is going to
18 be complex, a little bit, in that we need to rely upon our
19 three agencies here; not on the applicants, GPT and SSA, to
20 be providing the information and data to you. It's really
21 incumbent for them to have to rely upon our public agencies
22 to do our work for us.
23 So to the economics: One of the things that is a
24 criterion for this project is that this project will not
25 impose any uncompensated cost on public services and