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GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. I COURT REPORTER: GWEN BRASS PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012 Page 21 tax base ten years down the road. So one of the costs that we need to consider very carefully is the cost of building railway overpasses and infrastructural adjustments all along the tracks from Montana all the way to Cherry Point. A single grade crossing here could cost up to $20 million, and best estimates are that we're looking at billions of dollars in mitigation costs that will be foisted off on the taxpayers. MS. HULL: Number 10. THE SPEAKER: Hi. My name is Dan Pike. I'm a citizen of Bellingham. I live at 506 Cypress Road. And I want to talk a little bit about the economic and job impacts of this because it's being set up as environment versus jobs, and this is a loser just on the job side. This proposal would provide 1400 acres of prime industrial lands that create a net of 200 perhaps permanent jobs, which is one of the lowest results of industrial land use possible. And what's the cost? Well, if it puts us out of compliance with SEAMAC, which is a real possibility, it would cost us the jobs at Alcoa Intalco Works, which are good union jobs. It could cost us the job at Sierra Pacific where I've been told by somebody who works there that Burlington Northern has suggested that they will lose their siding they use right now to provide materials for their production every year.
GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. I COURT REPORTER: GWEN BRASS PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012 Page 22 The good news is I told them that maybe the Chinese can take the cheap energy and replace the product they're currently making down in Skagit County. The Port of Seattle complains about being blocked by traffic from a basketball arena, but this would be many more times more impactful to them at the cost of very many good jobs there. I want all of these things examined and understood how we're going to mitigate those. It's going to effect economic development in this community where we believe in sustainability and we've built a reputation for that, and this will destroy that reputation at the expense of future companies choosing to be here or not. In addition, this puts at risk a lot of our existing industries. There's going to be over a thousand tankers a year. There's over a thousand tankers a year now going through the straits that are now going to be impacted by these cargo bulkers that have very little maneuverability, and they're damaging, potentially putting us one accident away, one disaster away, from harm to industry, fishing and crabbing, and harm to our native culture. So to sum up, I want to see a programmatic study examining all impacts; I want to identify and require full mitigation to all negative impacts; I want to look at a full range of alternatives such as, for example, wind power, which
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