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

11/3/2012
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2 PATRICIA MORSE: (No card.) Thank you. My
3 name is Dr. M. Patricia Morse -- is that what you told
4 me to say without taking away my time -- and I am
5 here. I'm a person that is a marine biologist. I was
6 brought up on the east coast in Woods Hole and then I
7 came out here.
8 And many of the things that I see in terms
9 of change over time are very important to me. I'm
10 particularly afraid that we put too much in and we
11 take too much out of our oceans.
12 In the Haro Straits it's most important for
13 me to see that we maintain the biodiversity of the
14 spineless, as well as the orcas and all the other
15 organisms. And it's particularly important because
16 almost all the jobs on this island are connected with
17 our ocean around us. We must keep that in mind.
18 The other thing is is that I'd like to put a
19 question to you, which has to do with would you be
20 prepared to study the bottom of Haro Strait after a
21 small or a large loss of coal-related materials? And
22 would you be prepared to do this with the folks like
23 the worldwide studies that have been done by Germano
24 and Associates in Seattle, where they use cameras
25 where you jam them down in the bottom and you see the
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