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

11/3/2012
1 because I know its fragility, and I know that it can be
2 seriously affected if there is anything to go wrong in
3 shipping coal from Bellingham.
4 So I believe it's up to us to protect the sea grass
5 population as they are a keystone species, ostra marina.
6 And if we harm our sea grass in the San Juan Islands, I
7 think that we could also be harming the cetaceans and the
8 pedapeds in the area.
9 So I've been interning under Dr. Sandy
10 Wyllie-Echeverria for two years, and I have been studying
11 different water quality variables in sea grass.
12 And I know that phenols and fuel, fossil fuels can
13 have an effect on sea grass population, so I think that
14 any amount of oil getting into our water is not good.
15 That's all I want to say.
16 WILLIAM LOWE: My name is William Lowe. I
17 live on San Juan Island. I have concerns on the shipping
18 more than anything else in our area.
19 My concern is the sides of the ships, and if they're
20 tug escorted. And the studies have been done in relation
21 to the toxicity of the waters in our area, if one of
22 these ships were to sink or have an accident, what that
23 toxicity might mean to our environment and the sea life
24 in the Salish Sea.
25 TIM WHITE: My name is Tim White. I live
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