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GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. II COURT REPORTER: BETH DRUMMOND PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012 Page 128 1 impacts including on property and the health impacts of 2 noise and vibration on me, my house, my neighbors' houses, 3 the people in their homes and communities all along the rail 4 line, of 18 more coal trains from the GPT, plus, and the 5 existing rail traffic and the reasonably foreseeable future 6 rail traffic. 7 Please say who will pay the cost of our damages 8 and to mitigate the cost of this harm. Thank you. 9 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 88, 89, 90. 88, you're at 10 the microphone. 11 Please state your name for the record. 12 THE SPEAKER: We have a lot of short people 13 around here (adjusting the microphone.) 14 I'm Barry Wenger, Bellingham, Washington. And I 15 was Senior Environmental Planner for the Washington State 16 Department of Ecology for 26 years until I retired this 17 March. 18 And I spent a lot of that time looking at big 19 picture issues on impacts of really large projects like this 20 project, proposed. I should have worn red, but they didn't 21 let me know about that. 22 Anyway, I have just a couple comments I want to 23 make to you folks here. I'm sending a real long list of 24 scoping comments soon. 25 And, basically, I would like to encourage you to
GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. II COURT REPORTER: BETH DRUMMOND PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012 Page 129 1 look at the cumulative impact of all -- of all the global 2 facilities on the West Coast, on vessel traffic in ballast 3 water, in particular. 4 Those are areas I don't have a lot of expertise 5 in, but all of the ships when you start tracking where 6 they'll go, they all go up the West Coast, the Pacific 7 Coast, that's the D.C. coast, up to one little tiny pinhole 8 pass, called Unimak Pass in the Aleutians. 9 And then they go on the inside of the Aleutians 10 by the Bering Sea in Bristol Bay a thousand miles out to the 11 other side of the Aleutian Islands, and then they come down 12 to all Asia, China, and everything. 13 That's the same thing for the tar sand ships that 14 are coming down from, proposed, Burnaby and other tar sands 15 to cruise ships. We're the ones that will pit that; if 16 there's an impact, it will all be in the same place. 17 Turns out, the impacts from these vessels are -- 18 could be devastating to all the Pacific Northwest salmon 19 because all of the salmon when they spawn, they've got to go 20 down to Columbia River further south; all the smolts go up 21 to the Gulf of Alaska. 22 The research has been ten billion smolts a year 23 go there. If there's a collision between any of these coal 24 ships and the tar sand ships in that area or anywhere along 25 the way, which is very likely with that traffic being
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