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

11/3/2012
1 here in the San Juans. My family has deep roots in this
2 area going back many generations here. I'm a white
3 working-class construction worker male.
4 This comment is about the shipping, and particularly
5 refueling of the ships. I've just been talking to the
6 consultants in the other room, and they did not have
7 answers to this.
8 There's no refueling that's going to take place
9 actually at the terminal under proposals. So I said,
10 well, where are they going to be fueled, then? And they
11 say they're typically fueled at sea.
12 So my question was, well, at sea, does that mean in
13 the Straights of Juan de Fuca because they can do this
14 out of Port Angeles?
15 And he didn't know. He said he thinks that they can
16 do six crossings of the Pacific ocean on one fueling, and
17 that they probably fuel on the other side of the Pacific
18 Rim.
19 That is something that really needs to be measured
20 here because it would mean that the amount of fuel that
21 they would have if they arrived for the first trip with
22 -- they've still got five crossing's worth of fuel on
23 board. The consequences of a spill is much bigger if
24 they have that volume.
25 And the second thing is if they are refueling at
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