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

11/3/2012
1 shallow sea urchins. They create an environment for
2 all of the marine life baby species, as a nursery for
3 the growing up. Babies of all the species actually
4 live in the spine canopy that the urchins create.
5 As far as the coal industry, it has been
6 killing our planet for over a hundred years while
7 promoting jobs and economy, and I want to remind you
8 there are no jobs and no economy on a dead planet.
9 Thank you.
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11 JEANETTE ACOSTA: Greetings my relatives.
12 My name is Jeanette Acosta, which means Coastal Water,
13 and I travel here from the territory of the San Juan
14 Coastal Band of Chumash Indians in California.
15 I am here as an individual and as a
16 traditional woman in your midst. I work for the
17 ancestors, for the protection of sacred sites, and for
18 the rights of indigenous peoples.
19 The proposed GPT project poses high risk
20 areas to Coast Salish Seas' sacred watersheds, and
21 they have the highest probability of an oil spill
22 associated with them.
23 I request a comprehensive risk assessment to
24 include: Marine mammals; marine birds; salmonids;
25 herrings; eulachon; and tanker risks.
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