Bellingham Comments from Digital Recorder - EISs for the Proposed ...

GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. II
COURT REPORTER: BETH DRUMMOND PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012
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1 On top of that I would really want to request
2 that the recreationalist impacts are looked at because the
3 coal trains will block off access to the water for large
4 amounts of time, as well as the increased vessel traffic
5 will also impact things like whale watching and kayaking and
6 other recreational sports, and fishing included in that.
7 I also would like to -- as a toxicologist, like
8 the fugitive coal dust to be looked at, and alternatively,
9 the surfactants that could be sprayed on top of the coal
10 dust. It's been known that surfactants can be extremely
11 toxic, especially to the aquatic organisms -- and it's been
12 stated that -- or ground up, it will be ten times more toxic
13 when surfactants are present than when the more active
14 ingredients are present. So I would really appreciate that
15 if that were accounted for in the EIS.
16 Additionally, I would like the EIS to look at the
17 cumulative impacts of all the different proposals that are
18 out there for the other coal expert terminals, as well as
19 the increased local traffic and how that would potentially
20 impact this because just looking at this one project
21 proposal isn't enough when we know that there's other things
22 that could interact on top of that.
23 So thank you so much for your time.
24 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 21, 22, 23. 21 you're at the
25 microphone. 22 and 23 you're at the desk.