Public Hearing - EISs for the Proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal ...

11/3/2012
1 economic and natural environment of the islands.
2 Thank you.
3 o-O-o
4 MELISSA PINNOW: Hi. My name is Melissa
5 Pinnow. I have lived on San Juan Island my entire
6 life and I'm a certified marine naturalist.
7 My parents moved to the island before I was
8 born because they wanted to watch the Southern
9 Resident Killer Whales. I share the love for the
10 orcas and consider the orcas like a second family to
11 me now.
12 I am opposed to the coal exports from Cherry
13 Point because of the increase in vessel traffic
14 through the habitat and the federally listed orcas.
15 There are many reefs and small islands that
16 are submerged during high tide and the possibility
17 that one of the tankers could hit one and start
18 spilling oil, or coal for that matter, is not worth
19 the risk for me.
20 If an oil spill happens the lives of the
21 Southern resident orcas, birds, salmon, herring, sand
22 lance, and everything that lives in the water would be
23 in danger.
24 All the people that live on the islands
25 would be negatively affected as well. Fish and
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