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 can open up the ground and put all the stuff back in after
2 it's been taken out; after it's been treated with who knows
3 how many chemicals? The burning and everything else, that's
4 bad enough.
5 But what happens if some, just water, wipes it
6 into our bay? We can't recover that.
7 Have you thought about that?
8 All of these disasters, what about the
9 earthquakes? A tsunami? Even a tornado is not uncommon --
10 I mean, not unheard of.
11 These things, on top of all of the other problems
12 this terminal will cause -- all of the traffic in the bay,
13 all of the emissions it burns, the fact that jobs are going
14 to China -- there's just no good thing about coal and, you
15 know it. Thank you for your time.
16 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 24, 25, and 26. 24 you're at
17 the microphone. 25 and 26 you're at the desk.
18 Please state your name for the record.
19 THE SPEAKER: My name is Virginia Malmquist, and
20 I'm a sailor.
21 I'm concerned about the impact this will have on
22 the places that I love to be in the Salish Seas.
23 Ship traffic is huge, and those are single hull
24 ships. And I want to know what would happen if one of them
25 ends up trashed, whether it's an earthquake or a collision