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

11/3/2012
1 a bitumen disaster.
2 Well, adding this coal traffic into the picture just
3 increases the risk. And so I think that you need to look
4 very carefully at the risk, and the standard risk is you
5 identify the risk. It has a probability, and it has an
6 impact.
7 And for the county, the impacts are tremendous.
8 We're a tourist-based economy. Like I said, we own a
9 bookstore. 50 percent of this economy is based on
10 tourism. You have a shipping disaster like this, and we
11 are done as a community. Thank you.
12 GEORGIA BACIN: My name is Georgia Bacin, and
13 I live in Friday Harbor. And I read all the things, but
14 one question I have -- it says that they won't be fueling
15 them at the terminal, so where are they going to fuel
16 them?
17 Are they going to fuel them out in the open water?
18 Are they going to fuel them in the straight someplace, or
19 what are they going to do? So that's just my comment.
20 Where is the fueling going to take place? Thank you.
21 JIM NOLLMAN: My name is Jim Nollman, and I'm
22 speaking here as a whale consultant for the U.S.
23 Government, and I'm involved in whale behavior in terms
24 of acoustics.
25 I work for the Pentagon, and I've been specifically
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