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 trickle-down effect.
2 And what I would like the study to take a look
3 at, I'd like the economic impact of, like, maybe the
4 trickle-up effect.
5 The concern is, well, it won't really be local
6 people working. I would like to see local people working;
7 that's where I'm coming from.
8 And I would like to see, you know, good paying
9 jobs, you know, but the training for these jobs, would those
10 come from the local schools?
11 In other words, the tech schools, would they have
12 to bring in -- you know, so if you could look at kind of the
13 economic, impact, in general, of doing this.
14 And then also many people have spoke about health
15 and safety concerns, and I'm not going to personally evade
16 the coal. I mean, is it possible to ship other things, you
17 know, lumber and grain and, you know, other things that
18 aren't so damaging, you know? Thank you.
19 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: Last call for 78 and 79.
20 Okay. We move on to 80, 81, and 82. 80 you're at the
21 microphone.
22 81 and 82, you're at the desk.
23 Okay. Please state your name for the record.
24 THE SPEAKER: My name is Dillon Thompson. I'm on
25 the Board of Directors for the Fertile Ground Environmental