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

11/3/2012
1 I was born on this island since first I was
2 my mother's daughter and you can't just take my dreams
3 away without me fighting, no, you can't just take my
4 dreams away, without me singing, no, you can't just
5 take my dreams away."
6 o-O-o
7 PHIL BRANCH: Hi. I'm Phil Branch; I've
8 lived on Orcas Island for eleven years.
9 In the summer I work at Moran State Park and
10 Rosario Resort giving information to island tourists
11 and visitors about the local history, the natural
12 history, and tourist activities they're interested in.
13 One of the most common tourist questions is,
14 "Where do you most often see the orcas?"
15 One of my major concerns about the proposed
16 coal terminal involves the very likely significant
17 unavoidable adverse impacts that a terminal would
18 cause to our marine environment in the Salish Sea.
19 I ask that you study the impact of the black
20 carbon coal dust that will blow off the piles at the
21 terminal and settle on the marine plants and animals
22 near the terminal, and in the greater Salish Sea,
23 especially during the storms with winds of 60, 80, and
24 a hundred miles an hour that we have experienced in
25 the recent past.
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