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

11/3/2012
1 affected, and I'm sure they would be.
2 I mean, every time they find a baby whale dead, it
3 just gets me in the heart, and so I'd like to hope that
4 that doesn't have to happen.
5 I'm assuming that this environmental impact
6 statement like others with which I am familiar involves a
7 no action alternative.
8 Well, I think the no action alternative is a shining
9 light. And I think if there's any way that that could be
10 the preferred alternative and the conclusion, I would be
11 extremely happy.
12 And someone said in there in the other room that
13 cumulative impacts region wide and perhaps programmatic
14 as well as project EIS might be required for this. I
15 think that's a very salient and interesting possibility.
16 Thank you for your attention.
17 ANN JARRELL: My name is Ann Jarrell. I'm a
18 resident of San Juan Island. We've been coming here for
19 25 years, living here for the last seven.
20 I concur with all the comments I have heard in so
21 many of these respects with concerns about the oil
22 spills, the single-walled tankers that are going to ply
23 these waters.
24 And the numbers that they are quoting are just
25 astronomical. And global warming being one of the chief
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