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

11/3/2012
1 confined waters is imminent.
2 I ask you to investigate the accident
3 records of the above two categories of ships versus
4 American, Japanese, and Northern European-run ships
5 with the idea that third world and run-away flagships
6 not be allowed to operate in this trade due to the
7 potentially horrendous risk to Puget Sound.
8 o-O-o
9 DONNA RIORDAN: Thank you very much for
10 coming to the San Juan Islands to listen to our
11 concerns.
12 My name is Donna Riordan. For 25 years I
13 have worked in science policy and education, that is
14 bringing scientists and the best science and technical
15 knowledge to public policy discussions.
16 For two years I have lived on Orcas Island
17 where I am a mother, a wife, a business owner, and
18 co-founder of the Orcas No Coalition, which is a
19 non-partisan group of Orcas Island residents committed
20 to informing our community about the proposed
21 terminal.
22 The terminal would be located ten nautical
23 miles across Georgia Strait from my home, from which I
24 can see the lights and large numbers of vessels coming
25 and going from oil and tar sands refineries near
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