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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comprehensive scope from Montana all the way to the terminal,
to the waters, to the narrow passageway that they'll go through
through Alaska, which is bound to lead to spills.
And two last things: One, I think you need to look at
the impact of possible eco-terrorism on spills. And lastly, I
think you need to look at your consultant who is affiliated
with the industry.
MR. STURTEVANT: Thank you very much.
THE SPEAKER: Hi. My community out there, how you
guys doing? Good to see you all here in support of -- I got a
shirt here today. Show this off. It's: No terminals here.
Build jobs in China.
Okay. My name's David Nellis, by the way. And I'm
very concerned about this.
Key things that I discovered in my studies in the
environmental type aspect of things, key point of that was
prevention. Prevention. Preventing things from happening. Or
else we get -- out there that our tax dollars are going to pay
to clean up. Is that where this proposal is headed? Our air
tainted. That's just not fair to the citizens to have this --
you know, this project in here for a few jobs will actually be
sent to China, and China's going to be the huge beneficiary of
all this.
Environmental mitigation, okay, and I've seen this,
and I've seen that mitigation is not followed.