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GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. II
COURT REPORTER: BETH DRUMMOND PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012
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1 taxpayers?
2 And when the coal leaves Powder River Basin on a
3 train, is it Peabody? It is GPT? Is it SSA? Is it
4 Burlington Northern? Is it the financial backers at Goldman
5 Sachs? Who owns the coal? Who -- who is liable?
6 When the coal arrives at Cherry Point, who owns
7 the coal? When it gets off the train and it goes on the
8 earth, who's liable for that coal and for an accident at
9 that point?
10 When it gets from the earth onto the vessel and
11 is being transferred, who owns the coal? Who's liable at
12 that particular moment?
13 On the vessels that's going out to sea and to the
14 Puget Sound, and has one of these catastrophic accidents
15 that we're all so terrified about, who's liable? Is it the
16 vessel or is it the owner of the coal?
17 And who owns the coal? And once it's out at the
18 sea and the big ocean and there's another accident? Who
19 owns the coal?
20 Who's responsible for mitigating and repairing
21 all the potential damages that could happen from this coal?
22 Who owns the coal and where is the liability?
23 Thank you.
24 MS. STRAUS-CLARK: 17, 18, 19.
25 17 you're at the microphone. 18 and 19 you're at