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HB 2919 / SB 2526 - No Bunker Fuel (Support)

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Amendments Requested on the Bunker Fuel Proposal

Amendments Requested on the Bunker Fuel Proposal

Three-year Pilot Program for Nawiliwili Harbor on Kauai

Year 1-
Starting immediately, the DOH will conduct a program of health and environmental testing and evaluation to determine baseline levels of airborne (particulate) pollution and site contamination in the Niumalu community. Periodic testing will continue for one year.

Years 2 and 3
Twelve months after the Governor approves this legislation, cruise ships will begin burning ".5" fuel while docked in port. DOH will maintain its program of periodic health and environmental testing for two years.

DOH comes in with a report of its findings to the legislature. Drop dead date.

Why is Bunker Fuel Bad?

After hearing Gary's excellent presentation at the Eco Roundtable meeting, I thought it would be useful to give a quick lesson on the health problems of ship pollution.

When I lived in Los Angeles, I had the honor, as a Surfrider Foundation and Sierra Club leader, of suing the cruise ship industry three times. One of their answers in court was that the shipping industry is much worse than the cruise industry. That was and is true. The reason is simply that there are more cargo ships than cruise ships. We pay for cheap goods from China and the mainland with cheap ships that pollute.

Bunker fuel is like tar. It burns with a lot of soot. The large soot particles land on your cars and eat it's finish. The health problem is with the small soot--fine particulates. These tiny particles are 0.5 microns in diameter and are small enough to get into your smallest tubes in your lungs--bronchioles. In Los Angeles, the EPA estimates that certain neighborhoods near the ports and airports had a thousand deaths per year from particulate pollution. We called this area, the "diesel death zone." Now politicians are calling it that also.

Diesel fuel from trucks and "cleaner" ships also spew out particulates. Burning diesel over bunker is an improvement, but not a solution.

So called "Vog" is also particulate pollution.

Theses particulates are a known cause of asthma, emphysema, heart disease and cancer.

The smokestack's "smell" is from Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC). These smells are also quite toxic and carcinogenic.

Testimony from Kaua'i High School VP

Respected Senate Members,

I would like to speak in favor of limiting/controlling the harmful emissions from large cruise ships while near shore or in port. As a vice principal of a school whose location is in close proximity to a state harbor, I have on numerous occasions experienced first hand the physically unsettling effects of breathing cruise ship exhaust (sometimes referred to as "bunker smoke"). I have also received reports from the teachers and students at my school of dizziness and nausea associated with breathing fumes carried to the school from a cruise ship that was in port very near to the school. I am not a social opponent of the cruise ship industry nor do I oppose the economic benefit that the cruise ship industry brings to our community. But that benefit can not be at the expense of our health and safety.

Educating our children and keeping them safe is difficult enough when the whole system is working smoothly. The process becomes considerably more challenging when environmental conditions become unsafe for school employees as well as the children. It would be irresponsible of me not to speak up on this issue on behalf of my school. Please do your part to insure the safety of our children and those who serve them. Pass this law in a form that insures the air we breathe will support our health and well being.

Paul Zina
Vice Principal
Kauai High School
3577 Lala Road
Lihue, HI. 96766
Office: (808)274-3173 ext.105
Fax: (808)274-3160

TUESDAY, 2/26 TESTIMONY DEADLINE

http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2008/lists/getstatus2.asp?billno=HB...
ASAP!!! send your testimony for the House Bill BEFORE the 24 hour cut-off (tuesday night!) - use the same (cut and paste your last one )testimony but with this new header:

Send to: testimony@capitol.hawaii.gov">testimony@capitol.hawaii.gov

Use this header:

RE: HB 2919 - RELATING TO AIR POLLUTION CONTROL

Committee on Transportation and Committee on Tourism & Culture

From:

DATE: Wednesday, February 27, 2008

TIME: 9:30 A.M.

PLACE: Conference Room 309

State Capitol, 415 South Beretania Street

Testimony to support HB2919

Heard from Senator Hooser and he said the HB2526 went REALLY well. Carl Berg and Sam Morningstar did an exemplary job testifying and Sen. Hooser asked them to sum up @ the end. The opposition testifyers were "very weak" - Sam said they were lost when challenged on their positions. Also, the Kauai High School complaints and testimonies have added a new dimension in supporting both bills! Mahalo, gc

Malama Kaua'i Testimony

RE: SB 2526 - RELATING TO AIR POLLUTION CONTROL

Committee On Energy and Environment (ENE) and Committee On Health (HTH)

From: Malama Kaua'i

DATE: Thursday, February 21, 2008

TIME: 2:45 p.m.

PLACE: Conference Room 414
State Capitol, 415 South Beretania Street

Testimony to support SB2526

Dear Honorable Senate Members,
I am writing to state Malama Kaua'i's support for Senate Bill 2526. Malama Kaua'i is a Kilauea based non-profit working to raise awareness on the importance of sustainability, to assist in implementing sustainable practices and support sustainable projects beneficial to the community.

Community and individual health is foundational to sustainability. The reasonable request for cruise ships to switch to cleaner-burning fuels while at port in Nawiliwili harbor will greatly affect air quality in the area. Niumalu residents are suffering from respiratory health problems related to the burning of bunker fuel by the cruise ship industry. Although cleaner-burning fuels may be slightly more expensive upfront, the resulting health care expenses and possible litigation will prove much more costly in the long-run. Beyond cost, it is a basic human right to live in a clean environment, especially when there are easy and obvious solutions for maintaining a clean environment. We have a choice to make a small economic investment today in order to insure a healthy community tomorrow. What would you do if it were your own 'ohana and community?

With respect,

Andrea Brower
Malama Kaua'i
808-635-1659

testimony submitted

read attachment--it will anger you enough to write your own testimony!

Action: 2/15

SB 2526; Hearing on bunker fuel ban, Thursday 2/21 @ 2:45, Room 414, ENE/HTH committees

Letter to the editor

Fuel switch may avoid litigation

Mahalo for your article highlighting the issues surrounding the harmful effects of cruise ship emissions (“Bill seeks shift from bunker fuel,” A1, Feb. 12).

I hope readers will write in support of HB 2919 and SB 2526. This reasonable request to switch to cleaner-burning fuels while at port may prevent costly litigation against the state and the cruise ship industry. Other harbors have forced users to switch and some of Hawai‘i’s shippers (Pasha and Maersk) have voluntarily made the change.

Recently NCL has made a habit of hosting local non-profit fundraisers for our communities’ benefit. This is very generous of them. Perhaps they could be a little more charitable and considerate of the community in Niumalu who must suffer from the downwind effects of soot and noxious odors from their smokestacks. Carcinogenic pollutants should not be acceptable corporate contributions to our communities’ health and well being.

James Trujillo
Kapa‘a

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