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 36 extra trains a day; is there a cap on how big this
2 terminal can get? Thank you.
3 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 73, 74, and 75.
4 73 you're at the microphone. 74 and 75 you're at
5 the desk.
6 Please state your name for the record.
7 THE SPEAKER: My name is Vince Lalande, and I
8 live here in Bellingham.
9 And I run a small business with two locations.
10 Ten years ago, we had -- well, I was the one employee and I
11 -- since I've been the owner, we were fortunate enough to
12 hire 25 to 30 people at different times. And thanks to the
13 support of the community, we've been doing well.
14 And I wrote a whole bunch of notes, and after
15 hearing the other gentlemen speak, I just wanted to kind of
16 change and go off the cuff, and waste my two minutes this
17 way.
18 My dad, you know, would always say to me when I
19 was young, "There might be a shortage of jobs, but there's
20 never a shortage of work."
21 And the work that we have at hand right now, our
22 generation and all of us living right now, is to clean up
23 the mess that the -- that our forefathers have created.
24 They didn't do it because they thought -- they didn't do it
25 because they were trying to waste our resources or pollute