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

11/3/2012
1 be just as damaging, if not more damaging to our
2 waters. The coal emissions coming back from China are
3 damaging to our waters. And with that I guess I'm out
4 of time. Thank you.
5 o-O-o
6 MELANIE PATTEN: My name is Melanie Patten
7 and I live on Orcas Island and my family has lived
8 here for more than 40 years.
9 I've heard a lot of people speak about the
10 dangers from large ships that might run aground, might
11 break up, old ships, single hulled ships, and so what
12 I wanted to say is just that I really hope that in the
13 environmental impact statement you include not only an
14 assessment of the risk to me and to my beach and to my
15 family and to my oysters, and salmon, and sand lance,
16 and to the wider community, to my neighbors, to the
17 hundreds of thousands of people who live in this area,
18 what the effect of a major spill would be on us, but
19 also not only how much it would cost to clean it up
20 and who will pay, which I don't think is going to be
21 the corporations entirely, it will be the taxpayers;
22 but can it be cleaned up. Can it be completely
23 cleaned up. And if not, if it can't be completely
24 cleaned up if such a thing should happen, just don't
25 let it happen.
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