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

11/3/2012
1 acoustic impact can each step strategy accomplish?
2 Please include ship design, propulsion systems, ships
3 speed and routine controls, such as those now in place
4 for the right whales in the Atlantic.
5 Thanks for considering these questions as
6 component to any future environmental impact
7 statements for projects that plan to export possible
8 fuels via the Salish Sea. Thank you very much.
9 o-O-o
10 TODD SHUSTER: Hello. My name is Todd
11 Shuster, Captain Todd Shuster, and I'm the owner and
12 operator of Gato Verde Adventure Sailing based in
13 Bellingham, Washington.
14 I am a commercial operator for passenger
15 vessels in the height of the tourist season. And then
16 in the spring and the fall I tend to do research trips
17 studying the endangered Southern Resident Killer
18 Whales.
19 I am concerned that there will be
20 significant and direct cumulative impacts on the areas
21 around Cherry Point to fragile underwater habitat that
22 is vital for forage fish in general, and the Pacific
23 sand lance in particular.
24 On a research cruise out there last fall I
25 saw evidence of sand waves, which is known critical
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