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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when it comes to this. When we take our -- when we take our
natural resources, ship them to China, we know that more and
more jobs are going to be created in China. That's going to
create sales tax revenue to make sure that they have all kinds
of Chinese crap coming over here to undermine our economy.
That's going to undermine our economy to such an extent that we
won't have the money to pay for cleanup.
We don't have money already for education, we don't
have money for our universities, our colleges, our high
schools. We need to keep these jobs here at home.
MS. HULL: Thank you.
Number 33, please. 34, 35, and 36 may come down,
please.
THE SPEAKER: My name is Laura Leigh Brakke. My name
is Laura Leigh Brakke. I live in the most beautiful place on
earth called Pleasant Bay here in Whatcom County. I'm also a
certified nurse midwife, and I was up a hundred percent,
24 hours, all through the night, so if my comments lose track,
that may be why. Had a baby at 2:47 this morning.
So I would like part of the EIS study to include the
effects of mercury on the health of our environment as it
enters into our food source and fish and the effects on
pregnant women, unborn children, et cetera.
I also would like the EIS to include the increased
traffic in our shipping lanes from the inland Puget Sound to