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

11/3/2012
1 350 volunteer hours with the oil spill group. I went
2 down to the Gulf and worked for a month taking
3 collections of oil and wildlife.
4 And so my comments are I hope that the state and
5 federal agencies will really do a very good assessment on
6 the environmental damage because this is a ludicrous
7 thing to do in a sensitive area. I've got experience in
8 knowing what can happen in emergency situations.
9 I ask that the agencies, if they do allow this
10 project, which I hope they don't, but if they do allow
11 this project to come into fruition, I ask that the
12 agencies insist that these super tankers are double
13 hulled. I ask that they insist that the super tankers
14 have a tug escort both in and out.
15 And I also ask that they insist that there be
16 emergency contingencies, not just giving verbal mouth to
17 it, but training people on both sides, Canada and U.S.,
18 from the mainland as well as on our islands to have
19 stations set up for emergencies and train people so that
20 they already know where they're to go and what they're to
21 do because emergencies will happen.
22 I also wish that they would train people and have
23 rehab places set up so that the wildlife will -- because
24 it takes a while to set up rehab places, so we already
25 need to have those people trained and those rehab
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