Public Hearing - EISs for the Proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal ...
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11/3/2012<br />
1 declined from 17,000 tons of spawning biomass to less<br />
2 than 1,000 tons. They are a linchpin in <strong>the</strong> food web<br />
3 that includes endangered Chinook salmon, migratory<br />
4 seabirds, and Sou<strong>the</strong>rn resident orcas, already<br />
5 threatened by multiple chronic stressors and listed as<br />
6 an endangered species.<br />
7 Herring eggs and larvae, part of<br />
8 zooplankton, are acutely sensitive to impacts of pH<br />
9 PAHs.<br />
10 You must assess <strong>the</strong> risk and impact that<br />
11 this proposed <strong>Gateway</strong> <strong>Pacific</strong> coal terminal would have<br />
12 upon our already stressed Salish Sea Puget Sound<br />
13 ecosystem.<br />
14 More scientifically significant studies must<br />
15 be completed in order to even consider this<br />
16 development. Begin by computer modeling plankton<br />
17 ecology using a model such as <strong>the</strong> bio geochemical<br />
18 model <strong>for</strong> Puget Sound, by Neil Banas at <strong>the</strong> UW Applied<br />
19 Physics laboratory. O<strong>the</strong>r scientists such as Terry<br />
20 Claner at <strong>the</strong> UW --<br />
21 o-O-o<br />
22 JOHN BRASH: Hi. My name is John Brash.<br />
23 I'm a resident of San Juan Island and have been so <strong>for</strong><br />
24 34 years. I'm a retired United States Naval Officer.<br />
25 I was Chief Engineer in <strong>the</strong> United States Merchant<br />
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