mean coal train coal train traversing our rail corridor imagine him pack that will have to our community but the real plug may be coal dust full of in his campaign to to run for congress so i started looking into it and this is an enormous this is an enormous project it's it it's a wall street hammerlock on our economy now you say enormous project this is when you consider everything from the mining in wyoming putting it on the rails taking it the warm way around but eventually it's coming through to seattle neighborhoods on its way to cherry point which is just so th can it's the biggest coal company in the world peabody coal this will be the biggest port in the world by the biggest vampire capitalist group goldman sachs it's a railroad completely owned by warren buffett buffett the richest man in the world now did i hear you right you're saying the railroad is owned by warren buffett the richest man in the world is the mutual fund berkshire hathaway own one hundred burlington northern santa fe the plot thickens not only are we not hearing about this cherry pointed to a coal export project with now we're finding out that it is indeed the temp of the one thousands of one percent doing it again to the ninety nine percent absolutely no dorson i know that you're running for congress yes and i i believe you're the only contender and none of the other candidates has taken any position except one is for it and then it goes back to looking at all the impact of these project itself duddy projects that's coming to our backyard and i don't the one who is standing against it because you want to mention an outdated technology which is coal and the last thing we should be doing is shipping our resources to china making them more competitive you know in competing with us on businesses where you just mentioned something earlier there there's only going to be a released by the apollo alliance we could be creating three point three million high paying jobs rather than investing in is dirty and to strew this will require a lot of infrastructure mitigation as well as particles in our approach and you know it's surprising to me that there's so little discussion about anything adverse but only the fact that there might be some jobs a few jobs somebody's economic boost but we never hear that there will be a trade off know or we get something but we pay dearly for that something i heard that the former labor boss trumka is in favor of this project he used to be so obama says yes clean coal yes to coal jobs and now i look like a populist because the labor unions are supporting me you know kim can our infrastructure even handle the number of coal trains that are  slated to come through our area right now no so and then also what they were the infrastructure project that's if this gets through is that taxpayers are going to be on the hook ninety percent of the good things for a big corporation it will go up you know and then actually there's a federal laws in terms of railroads so that the companies that owns them gets to only pay only ten percent of that and the dam is done by the coal dust and rest of the cost is basically they state and all of the federal government or that local cities and the taxpayers needs to pick up the tab or isn't the coal market itself a really are fickle market one that's here today maybe gone tomorrow so we're talking about infrastructure mugger investment but how do we know china will be demanded coal from the united states we might have some real friction with china three or four or five years will there's already an indication that they don't particularly want this coal a train through our back to back yards that with all the holes hazards and their big profits for the one percent goldman sachs has a commodities and a commodities index which they market to banks and they can play the roles as as the contracts become renewable and just make money in the stock market from from their commodities index they can control the price of coal they can drive it up and they can drive  environment and climate change that's only going to settle down on out of course down the road now you said it's cheaper for the chinese to import our coal and did our industry roll in here but that's only if all of these externalities were paid for by there's a millions possibly billions you know that we're looking and it's all going to be basically that x affairs i've got together so goldman sachs only has to come up with ten percent of the money and the rest can and they can pilot you know because that car's in probably about half mile a stretch in general look forward to is a potential of train train wrecks in our in our neighborhood here along with the noise along with the cold us along with just the traffic most that it will create all just to get the cold to blame to get it to china's to the these derivatives markets who can go on reaching out some some profits on the taxpayers role propping up making a possible no wonder we don't hear the the other side of the story tell me specifically the duerson what is it going to do to home property values if you're anywhere in this rural training train track trains a day and because they're on cover there's and some estimate of how much coal dust is going to saturate our air for all the seattle lloyd's and everybody in the northwest really distort breathing one pound per car per mile one pound were talking public health here we're talking cold us but there's another vital concern to just noise i think it was alluded to earlier noise is going to be a tremendous impact from trains my daughter lived on the waterfront near a train and they're going to have to upgrade that infrastructure if they're going to handle this kind of traffic and if that isn't bad enough i know that when trains come through your area you're going to do it diesel pollution really well and also how bad will got we've got the salmon we've got clean air relatively we're got a quiet enjoyable place to live we don't really it's not known as in as much capital what is this cherry point coal project area in cherry point has been zone industrial but if you look at the photographs it's it's a beautiful wood covered area it's adjacent to sensitive land and fisheries it's it's like they they're trying to master just trying to make this into a an appalachian a third world extractive economy at the expense of all our traditional ways of of living who is going to mitigate i know that probably we're not going to expect any mitigation costs on the railroad over overpasses and tunneling the bed itself because typically that's not done by the railroads they put that onto the taxpayer can we expect any other mitigation costs to the sound to the fisheries through the agricultural lands is there any prospect of that is there any as burlington northern or has the coal industry  you know tax very sad going to be on the hook and this is been the history of the way this industry this dirty despite clean coal term it's the dirty polluting yesterday industry this is the way it's always health effects are going to be borne by taxpayers especially now with obamacare we're responsible for people that as taxpayers they can't buy their own insurance the overpasses and the grade crossings and all of that are going to be at public expense that is is trying to stop this the sierra club got fifty million dollars to fight this and write them and ask them to spend that money go to court do something the washington department of transportation the freight division you can ask them for an in depth study to make sure that the environmental costs are being covered with for a project like th state agencies that are or deciding on their own daily work whether this project goes through but normally but there's a bill that just passed the house fast track of a coal mining permits for that area are actually for a lot of economically feasible project where we ask export coal to china and we're hearing very very little about it that's what's so shocking we know not only is that cold early but the politics are dirty as well absolutely patty murray's husband works for s s a character and they started supporting patty murray when she was running for school board and they've contributed  for her position in congress they have gotten no bid contracts for iraq they've gotten the homeland security money for four port supposedly protecting the ports what really needs to happen is container inspection but we're voting when it's going to it's in the family was here you see i've never seen it enforced have you so this is not only dirty coal dirty industry and super dirty politics but we have a a bad actor it try to piggy bank his huge terminal on the back of an existing permit for a much smaller one and they've already started pushing roads into the new site without a permit the what come county commission the bottleneck is just kind of a small organization that can easily be bought off i saw that happen with comcast in kirkland where i live they wined and dined there the girl in charge of it and they got a monopoly on the region so when people are kept out of the loop and it's certainly the case with this cherry point co ax export terminal questionable whether we needed and super dirty politics as well as the dirty commodity we're going to see a replay of that industry that again yeah you know i am i'm i'm worried first of all i'm angry why didn't why didn't i know more about this and i hate to see understory just bulldozing that or i should should shrug and the people pushing people off the track so to speak again what can we do about it we don't have to do we want to just throw up our hands and let it to let them know that they oppose so what i'm what i'm hearing really is that people have got to be aware especially in slow motion in king county you've just got to be aware that there is this coal export terminal plan in the in the works  well on its way and looks fairly unstoppable because we're dealing with a dirty commodity industry dirty coal and we're dealing with super dirty politics so first acquaint yourself with what's going on it's a cheery point cold tarmoh projects more specifically the global for civic term the investment project and goldman sachs is one of the owner owning partners involved in this and it also connects warren buffett with the ownership of burlington northern first inform yourself and then joining some coalition is what i'm hearing and it can be done well when i lived in the far corners region peabody tried to build another call burning plant in a neighboring community had to shut down the wind on the navajo reservation and they were the primary polluters of this pristine area and try to put another one in farmington from it and has no environmental laws at all stood up to them and they couldn't do it hello lou i just hope that we wake up and stand up and stop these people here because one thing the viewers have to know is what we've cited is just what the the current plan is there's no awoke me to it and now i hope it is awakening a lot of viewers of the fact that dirty coal is coming to the northwest and it's not going to be the pristine northwest and the salmon on your plate may contain all kinds of heavy metals from coal dust  and there's really no economical the benefits to us actually i want to thank you for bringing the word to the community thank you very much thank