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

GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. I
COURT REPORTER: GWEN BRASS PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012
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as salmon, seals, Orcas, and sea birds rely upon.
Coal dust has been shown to be detrimental to these
sensitive species, so this is our main concern. A study in
2001 by Canadians of coal dust emission at the West Shore coal
terminal near Twawassen showed that 715 metric tons of coal
dust are released there every year. In addition, there is a
two-and-a-half-mile marine toxic dead zone that radiated out
from that facility.
Therefore, we request that scoping be done to
determine how SSA Marine can possibly control and eliminate
this magnitude of fugitive coal dust during their train
unloading, coal storage, transport on conveyer belts, and
during the weakest link, when coal leaves the conveyer belt and
drops through the open air into the hold of the transport ship.
MR. STURTEVANT: Thank you very much.
46, 47 and 48. 46 has the microphone.
THE SPEAKER: My name's Roger Stillman. I'm a
resident of Bellingham, and I live at 1240 Raymond Street. And
I'm a retired science teacher.
For the last eight years I've been involved in rapture
rescue and rehabilitation and for the last four years in a
long-term field ecology study.
Many people have spoken on the local negative impacts
on the Gateway Pacific Terminal, so I will speak on the
regional impact.