Gary Wallace Letter
In response to: A win-win for labor,
environment in Kalama | The Stand
Remember the self-serving source. This is an industry
publication with blinders about the health risks----short and long-term.
Notice nothing about negative health effects and the associated social
costs. How will NWIW mitigate that? They will cut and run as needed.
Zero about the Chinese Communist government infiltrating our
infrastructure.
Nothing about the loan guarantees to be hung around the taxpayers’ necks.
Nothing about how coal plants are to be shut down due to this project---what a
pie-in-the-sky load of BS.
How about the Port of Kalama enforcing their product usage (Amendment 1) to
guarantee this product would never be used for fuel. Restart the process
for permitting---major “no go.”
Zero about the lack of taxes paid----the Port of Kalama advertises the “No
Taxes” in their recruiting brochure---look on their website.
Never mind that the labor group that will assemble the parts shipped from
China. Per NWIW they will be coming from the petro-chemical cancer alley
regions in Texas and Louisiana; so how many real long-term construction jobs
will really be going to the local (Cowlitz County) unions. The article
specifically says the IBEW, but nobody else. Pretty limited.
As for the LCC program---it may have up to 20 people in the training
class. So, how is that going to be the direct and the (inflated) indirect
supported jobs stated in the article? Remember, the NWIW website states
“you must be able to speak fluent Chinese (dialect?)” to get considered for
upper (and likely, mid-level) management. Not too many qualified on this
point.
Nothing about the dishonesty portrayed by their permit applications---olefins,
or maybe fuel if the investors must know. A very sleazy approach to being
“part of the community”.
Never mind that the author does not live in Kalama or the immediate effected
area, as far as I know. His property value won’t go down.
Just a few quick observations that jump into my analysis. This is the
“Keep lying and soon the (appropriate) audience will begin to believe the
poison pen (and pill) that they seem willing to sell-out the rest of their
neighbors. Shallow thinking.
Gary
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