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

11/3/2012
1 The proposed terminal site is adjacent to
2 the Cherry Point aquatic reserve, one of our largest
3 beds for herring spawning on eelgrass.
4 Please include in the scope of your study
5 the known and observed effects on plants and animals
6 in the radius of about one mile from the existing coal
7 export terminal near Point Roberts, BC.
8 I request that your EIS include study of
9 these adverse effects on marine plants and animals, on
10 the microscopic, all the way up to the marine mammals
11 and birds, and the salmon.
12 As one of the many thousands of human
13 residents around the Salish Sea, I do not want to see
14 risk to our natural environment or our economic jobs
15 environment from the unavoidable adverse impacts of a
16 huge new coal terminal in this region, the Salish Sea.
17 Thank you.
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19 KEN BURTNESS: My name is Captain Ken
20 Burtness; I'm a fifth generation resident of the San
21 Juan Islands. I live on Lopez Island.
22 I worked professionally in these waters for
23 Washington State Ferries for a period of 38 years,
24 roughly the last 15 years I was master. I currently
25 hold United States Coast Guard license, master inland
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