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 Nation's people, this discussion should not even be
2 happening because this coal train is not going to go into
3 native land. It could happen, but it's not going to happen.
4 So just stop it at this point.
5 I'd like to say there were a lot of words spoken
6 here by an official. And I am sure every one of us is
7 thinking about this, those coal trains go by 24/7, and I'm
8 here as an auditory person as well so here it goes:
9 (Playing cassette recorder)
10 Speaker recorded on audio: 8:20 a.m.
11 (Playing audio of train's noise.)
12 THE SPEAKER: That's 1:20 a.m.
13 (Playing audio.)
14 THE SPEAKER: It's not here yet. It's coming;
15 you hear the rumbling.
16 (Audio continues playing.)
17 THE SPEAKER: I'll spare you the rest of the
18 details, but let me tell you this is nothing like how it is.
19 I live at 608 Boulevard, right down below my house.
20 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 87, 88, 89. 87 you're at the
21 microphone. 88 and 89 you're at the desk.
22 Please state your name for the record.
23 THE SPEAKER: Thank you. My name is Mary Ruth
24 Holder, and I live in Mount Vernon.
25 I did not ask the previous speaker to speak right