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

11/3/2012
1 generator failures or main engine problems, a large ship
2 is out of control no matter how qualified the Puget Sound
3 pilot is aboard.
4 These huge ships all carry several hundred thousand
5 gallons of what is called bunker sea or residual fuel
6 oil. The chances of a major oil spill in these confined
7 and clouded waters with fast currents and deep waters is
8 inevitable.
9 I ask you to investigate the accident records of
10 these two categories of ships versus American, Japanese
11 and Northern European-run ships with the idea that third
12 world and runaway flag ships not be allowed to operate in
13 this trade due to the potentially hazardous risks to
14 Puget Sound. Thank you.
15 LINDA HUDSON: I'm President of Keepers of
16 the Patos Light, and we are a nonprofit. And what we do
17 is open the lighthouse to the public, and we maintain the
18 beaches and trails of Patos Island, and we're a group of
19 100 people. When we're on Patos Island, we look straight
20 over to Cherry Point.
21 What my concern is, is coal dust. It's certainly --
22 as portrayed to me in my reading, it looks like coal dust
23 will be generated in the area, and Patos Island has
24 old-growth forest.
25 It has rare and unusual flora and fauna, some of
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