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 and increased coal trains will happen, and all we need to do
2 is negotiate compensation for the endless list of negative
3 impacts.
4 As far as this meeting, for the city of 80,000,
5 size, is a futile exercise that deceptively gives the
6 illusion that our community has some voice in a done deal.
7 There is no compensation for the price to be paid
8 for the immense corporate profit projected at our expense.
9 And of all future generations to follow, I might add.
10 Have we learned nothing from the recent financial
11 crises? Large corporations to power companies, privatize
12 their profits, and find a way to socialize their losses.
13 Big money wins every time. This scoping process,
14 with all due respect, is a pretense of interest in public
15 opinion. Projected corporate profit trumps whatever
16 negative impacts we enumerate from local to global.
17 Let's not forget that the one and only goal of
18 this entire Gateway Pacific enterprise is massive corporate
19 profit at any price.
20 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: You may wave your hands,
21 please. No applause. Thank you.
22 No. 92, 93, and 94. 92 you're at the microphone.
23 Please state your name for the record.
24 THE SPEAKER: This is John Neighbor, Bellingham,
25 Washington.