Bellingham Comments from Digital Recorder - EISs for the Proposed ...

GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. I
COURT REPORTER: GWEN BRASS PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012
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'80s. I've work for Canadian Pacific Railroad as a brakeman
and I started out -- D.C. When I transferred to the coast, I
worked out of -- and then I shipped down to -- I worked out of
that coal terminal there. And on the engines and on the
ceiling dust and you're looking down into the cars. And they
said that they sprayed them and everything, but we're getting
-- we're getting dust and we're getting it from a crew that
came down from --
And we're bringing it all the way into the terminal
there, and there was never anybody there to double check to see
whether there was anything -- there never was, and I know
because I have parked those trains right there off -- on the
dumpster. So they -- I went out for the first time on the
caboose and saw all these mountains of coal there, you know,
you sit there and you -- the windy days, you see it. It's
blowing around and it's just all over in the water and the
surrounding area.
So this is not -- I don't know what you're going to do
when this thing is built, even with the buffer zone, after it
kills the trees. Then what?
Thank you.
MS. HULL: Thank you.
THE SPEAKER: My name's Michael Sato. I live at 772
Mahonia Drive in Bellingham.
Over the last 25 years I've worked with others to