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

11/3/2012
1 to speak about this. I'm concerned about the impact that
2 we may experience if the Cascadia fault off of the coast
3 of Washington, Oregon and California does happen to slip,
4 which they're predicting.
5 The scientists and the archeologists say that we're
6 ready for -- we're due for an earthquake, and it will be
7 huge. Their prediction is that it will be 8 to 9 on the
8 Richter scale, and that should most likely generate a
9 tsunami in the area, and the Department of Emergency
10 Preparedness is beefing up for it now.
11 So I'm curious what the people at Cherry Point
12 Terminal or the captains of these big vessels would
13 experience in such a catastrophic natural disaster.
14 Can you guarantee that the vessel en route through a
15 tsunami or earthquake area would not run aground or
16 capsize or somehow breach its hull and spill its
17 contents? Can you guarantee this?
18 And what would happen to the terminal and the boats
19 that are sitting there in such an event if a wall of
20 water came rushing into that port?
21 This is a very real concern in our area all up and
22 down the coast, the 600-mile Cascadia fault. So it would
23 affect any proposed site in any of the West Coast states,
24 especially Northern California and up to Vancouver
25 Island.
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