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 look at what it's going to affect.
2 And, also, look at what we're hearing. We can
3 show the world by doing it correctly, by having clean power
4 and not having the coal here. Thank you.
5 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 47, 48, and 49. 47 you're at
6 the microphone. 48 and 49 you're at the desk.
7 Please state your name for the record.
8 THE SPEAKER: Tim Douglas. I was the Bellingham
9 mayor for 13 years and then Community Trade and Economic
10 Development Director for the State of Washington for
11 Governor Locke.
12 I have three things that I ask you to look very
13 carefully at as we review this particular Environmental
14 Impact statement. All of them are economic, and they all
15 relate to the responsibilities that cities and other local
16 governments have to provide the necessary transportation
17 systems to make sure that our communities are successful.
18 The first is, we have many just-in-time
19 industries now, aerospace being the primary one right now.
20 They are affected if their employees cannot get to work on
21 time or if their materials can't get to the client just in
22 time for the production.
23 I ask you to look very carefully at the impacts
24 of this proposed project and what it would do for the
25 transportation systems and the ability for just-in-time