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

11/3/2012
1 to be studied as part of the EIS.
2 I request studies including quantitative
3 results to address the following.
4 One, the dynamics of not only the ship
5 transits in question, but also looking at the context
6 of all the other significant marine traffic sharing
7 these waters and including the potential cumulative
8 impacts of other coal and other export shipping
9 activities, noting that safety challenges will
10 geometrically increase as the traffic increases.
11 Two, potentially catastrophic negative
12 impacts on the environment and on marine animals of a
13 collision or grounding event, including but not
14 limited to:
15 Spillage of bunker fuel from the vessel.
16 Please study the impact of a vessel containing bunker
17 fuel colliding with a passenger ferry or other cargo
18 ship, relative to the orca and salmon populations.
19 And also the requirements for suitably
20 expanding the resources and infrastructure required to
21 respond to and fully mitigate such a spill in the
22 surrounding waters. This study needs to reflect the
23 response time requirements in worst case weather
24 conditions.
25 Finally, potentially catastrophic negative
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