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GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. II
COURT REPORTER: BETH DRUMMOND PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012
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1 And I met with five ranching families in Eastern
2 Montana who were fighting the coal train; fighting the coal
3 mines; went through all the cities; are organizing a whole
4 route, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, wondering when their hearings
5 are going to be.
6 Two days ago, I played Yakima. The Yakama Nation
7 has come out against coal export. The Lummi Nation has come
8 out against coal export.
9 Going to the ranchers to here -- I'll just put it
10 this way: Both the cowboys and the Indians are against coal
11 export. We've got them surrounded. We're going to beat
12 them on this one, Friends. We're going to beat them on this
13 one.
14 And the reason is, I can give you, there's a long
15 history in America where the people stand up to big
16 corporations and to bureaucracies when our elected officials
17 say, "Oh, there's no way we can do this."
18 In Skagit Valley, when they wanted to put a
19 nuclear plant there in the '70s, two mayors and thousands of
20 people stood up. We beat that nuclear power plant.
21 In Kauai when they wanted to put in the
22 Interisland Super Ferry, 1500 Kauaians showed up there and
23 blocked the dock; 200 people on surfboards circled that
24 boat. The boat went back to Honolulu and never came back.
25 They defeated the federal government and the State of