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 And I'd also like to open the thought of how it
2 will impact my baby and how will it impact generations upon
3 generations to come.
4 I was called as a witness to our -- our ceremony
5 that we had out at Lummi at the Cherry Point site. That was
6 an honor for me because our people, that's how we -- we
7 documented these things. We would call witnesses so that
8 generations upon generations would remember it, and now my
9 generation, I can pass this on.
10 I can date back 165 generations to that land up
11 there. I have family that fished those waters ever since I
12 can remember, and the issues of how it will affect our
13 environment are important to me. Even more so, how it will
14 affect my culture is equally, if not more, important to me.
15 Because this -- this is something that keeps me
16 going as a person. It's something that holds my people
17 together, and this will be wiped away from my great
18 grandchildren to come and their great grandchildren.
19 The issue is -- sounds like a lot of it is the
20 benefit is just jobs, that that's what would benefit us.
21 There's many other ways to have jobs that won't
22 affect -- (Timer sounds to end speaker's testimony.)
23 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 46, 47, and 48. 46 you're at
24 the microphone. 47 and 48 you're at the desk.
25 Please state your name for the record.