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 tourist attractions. My husband and I moved here in 1985
2 from the islands. Our livelihood has been dependent on
3 fisheries, travel, tourism, and infrastructure.
4 I've worked mere feet from the tracks for the
5 last 17 years. Bellingham is what it is because of the
6 trains, the coal, the fishing, the logging, and then
7 tourism.
8 I am a poster child of what could happen if you
9 grew up around coal, and I've never been sick a day in my
10 life because of it.
11 I do, however, have PTSD from the outcome of two
12 gas line explosions into the city where I lived.
13 We cannot survive on tourism and retail alone.
14 We need good jobs, we need industry, and we need it now.
15 Thank you.
16 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 68, 69, and 70. 68 you're at
17 the microphone. 69 and 70 you're at the desk.
18 Please state your name for the record.
19 THE SPEAKER: Hi. My name is Sears Taylor. I
20 live in Bellingham. My condo overlooks the railroad train.
21 For the first ten years I lived here, I was
22 overwhelmed by the train noise, so I really want to live in
23 a world where there is no train noise; where's there no
24 train delays; there's no accidents; there's no disease;
25 there's social justice; no animals are mistreated -- oh,