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

11/3/2012
1 changes of what's been added and what's been taken
2 away. These things need to be done before and after.
3 We must understand what is happening before anything
4 happens.
5 It's nice that coal just plops -- it's still
6 green -- but the fact of the matter is that when that
7 coal goes down it's going to change that bottom
8 environment, and we want our organisms to keep living
9 and we want this place to stay the way it is and
10 maintain the jobs on our island. Thank you very much
11 for listening.
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13 VAL VEIRS: Thank you very much. My name is
14 Val Veirs. I'm an emeritus physics professor. I
15 spent five years on the board of The Whale Museum here
16 in town. I live on Haro Street that Trish just
17 mentioned.
18 My main goal is to try to bring noise,
19 underwater noise into your studies. I've listened to
20 the sounds of more than 10,000 ships passing, and I
21 want to ask you six questions about underwater noise
22 related to the Southern Resident Killer Whales.
23 First question is what are the underwater
24 acoustic levels, both amplitudes and frequency spectra
25 of the bulk carriers that would transport coal in the
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