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

11/3/2012
1 I'd better just skip down.
2 I'm concerned about the safety of the ships
3 and bulk carriers themselves. The ships are proposed
4 as Capesize. The capacity of up to 400,000 --
5 Am I done?
6 MODERATOR: No, there is still time.
7 CHARLES WEST: (Continued.) They have
8 single engines, single hulls.
9 What will happen in case of -- the Tree
10 Darling broke in half in 1994 due to incorrect
11 loading. The Vale Beijing, just last year, the
12 largest, 400,000-ton capacity bulk carrier sprang a
13 leak when it was being loaded. The leak was
14 sufficient enough that it had to be towed away from
15 the dock before it sank.
16 o-O-o
17 JOE GAYDOS: My name is Joe Gaydos; I'm
18 chief scientist of the SeaDoc Society and chair of the
19 Puget Sound Partnership Science Panel.
20 There has been a lot of talk about killer
21 whales and Marbled Murrelet, but we actually have 113
22 species in the Salish Sea that are listed by one or
23 more jurisdictions, which includes 33 percent of the
24 mammal species, one-third of the bird species, and
25 13 percent of the fish species suggesting an ecosystem
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