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 education and be ready to travel," because at that time if
2 you had talent, you had to travel to get to use it.
3 Paradigms shift. Let me tell you what's
4 happening today. Jobs are seeking out people and people are
5 moving to where they want to live; they like it, and then
6 trying to figure out how to get the jobs there.
7 You will lose people. You will lose people from
8 Bellingham in this area if this project comes in because
9 they'll just move to where they want to live; maybe
10 Colorado, I don't know.
11 That was an interesting set of hearings. It
12 actually ended with Governer Spellman rejecting everything,
13 and it cost him his election but he was Republican, and I
14 have a lot of respect for him.
15 Adam Smith in final profit -- I didn't want to
16 say this before -- is once you get -- after you pay all your
17 expenses, the trouble is the coal industry does not pay all
18 the expenses. It wants to dump it on other people.
19 Last week, I sat down and had lunch with an engineer or two
20 engineers from Powder River, I said, "Hey, we're looking at
21 this coal stuff."
22 He says, "No problem with the coal powder
23 stuff. It's just sort of like, you know."
24 I went to Point Roberts yesterday, and I did
25 print this map. It shows a prevailing wind right on where