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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 hear all of this. They should be listening to this. It's
2 overwhelming.
3 What are they doing? They're on vacation until
4 after the elections? Where's Carson? Where's Cantwell?
5 Where's Patty Murray? Where's Erickson? Where's Vincent
6 Buys? None of them are out here. Oh, there you are. Right
7 there, okay. Oh, you're not one -- sorry.
8 Anyway, they should be here to hear all of this.
9 It's astounding.
10 And I want to mention that I've studied all the
11 vast majority of coal terminals on the plant, and I just
12 looked at two Australian ones this morning. And they were
13 constructed with a force of 650 people and one was 600 --
14 and so I don't know about any of this 4000-person mark in
15 construction.
16 In Googling most of the coal terminals around the
17 planet, two facts stick out.
18 Fact No. 1: The vast majority of coal terminals
19 greatly expand their capacity once they're built.
20 After they're built, they double in size. They
21 triple in size. You go on the web, you can see it.
22 Colloseum has doubled in size, you know, Prince River, most
23 every one of them.
24 I would like to ask the scoping committee, to
25 scope what happens if we jump from 18 extra trains a day to