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

increase heron, how many new fishing jobs - good sustainable fishing jobs - will be recreated if we could
get our healthy salmon population returning. I would like the EIS to evaluate the number of potential
dead zones that might be created in the inland Puget Sound with the introduction of coal dust. It needs
to look at the potential of a capsized ship going aground, breaking up, having a collision with another
super tanker and the effects on the environment, who would clean it up, what are the costs to the
public, and would it even be possible to recreate the environment once we have a spill of any
magnitude?
Doug Lumas. 2500 Vining Street, Bellingham, WA 98226. This concept is very well dealt with in much
greater volume than I can now deal with. It’s shown in northwestcitizen.com under the links “coal ports
on site line” and “daily costs on coal.” These two have so many points that I could not relate against
this scheme as it’s proposed. Another factor which is now emotional is democracy. It’s in challenge by
special interest those who have converted the Supreme court to an instrument of their own use. Now
the people have got to vote against special interest otherwise democracy is not a word any longer.
Refer to northwestcitizen.com and look at “coal ports on site line” and “daily costs on coal”. The
number of points against this scheme in all directions is immense.
My name is Chris Benefell. I live at 515 Whitecap Road in Bellingham. I have two comments. I’ve lived
in Bellingham for a couple of years from Southern California – Long Beach Harbor/Los Angeles area. It’s
the largest port on the west coast. My interest over the years has been how Los Angeles county has
mitigated particulate matter, or tried to, or has plans to mitigate from large tankers and ships that use
that harbor. When ships come in, they keep their engines running. All that fuel and exhaust from the
burning of the fuel from the ships continues to burn into the atmosphere in that region because the
ships don’t turn off their engines when their unloading or loading. Los Angeles has a plan to have those
ships turn off their engines to provide energy for their ships by plugging them in. This requires a lot of
retrofitting of the major tankers that come in and out of international water ports of the world. It hasn’t
been done, it’s a plan, but they have identified this as a major cause of air pollution in the Los Angeles
basin. They’ve tried to eliminate some of the trucking pollution from truckers going in and out carrying
the shipments of all kinds of goods by having those trucks retrofit and that has been accomplished.
I’m Diane Yale, 18 Creekside Lane, Bellingham 98229. A few corporations are proposing a project that
will significantly impact the people and environment of 4 states. They may have believed their plan was
justified based on early projections that Asian countries, primarily China, would continue a large and
growing demand for American coal. The projections were prepared some time ago; circumstances
around the globe have changed. The Environmental Impact Statement needs to quantify, specifically
what the assumptions of demand were, and compare that to current and future economic and climate
realities. For example, this year in China there has been slowed economic growth in many industries.
They’ve received less demand for the products they export because of financial crisis in Europe. They