From:            Tom Barnard
To:                Commission-Public-Records
Subject:           [EXTERNAL] Cruise Industry and the POS
Date:              Monday, January 24, 2022 10:36:29 PM

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Dear Commissioners,
Assuming the KUOW news report is true, it would appear that using T46 as a future cruise
terminal is now off the table permanently. As a member of Seattle Cruise Control, and a
Puget Sound resident, I am indeed relieved. The question that must be faced, and soon, is
what is the future of the cruise industry at the Port of Seattle. Current indications are that
multiple cruise ships are not only reporting outbreaks, but that the full scale of these outbreaks
are not necessarily being reported to the CDC.
Yet this much is clear, according to the agency itself.The CDC director said this week that
Covid cases have increased 30-fold in just two weeks. Every one of the nearly 100 cruise ships
currently carrying passengers in US waters has reported enough Covid-19 cases to merit
investigation by the CDC. CDC recommendationsare that no one should be taking cruises.
Cruise lines themselves are canceling sailings, and some cruise lines are actually creating
quarantine ships (Royal Caribbean Lines now have four in operation) just to deal with the
number of infected crews.
It should be obvious by now that the 2022 cruise season is not going back to normal, despite
the fervent wishes of the cruise industry and its boosters. It is certainly possible that the peak
of the Omicron variant will have peaked, that is no reason to assume the pandemic is over and
cruising will be "safe" by May when the season would normally start for Alaska cruise here.
As well, the pattern of minimizing the impact of Covid on cruise ships is still going on by the
major cruise companies, including those that service our Port.
I strongly recommend:
1. The Port of Seattle should not allow cruise ships to dock here, until it is clear that the
pandemic has finally run its course.
2. Even after that, the Port should provide testing for passengers disembarking from the
ships, given the fact that passengers aboard the ships are only tested when they first
embark, or they report symptoms. It would be easy for asymptomatic passengers who
are carrying the virus to disembark and spread the disease through the Seattle
community or at the airport on their way back home
3. The Port should also provide medical and quarantine facilities for those disembarking
passengers that test positive for Covid. The attitude of the cruise industry is once the
passengers are off the ship, it's not their problem.
You have a far larger responsibility to the health and safety of Puget Sound residents than you
do to the cruise industry or your own bottom line. I suggest you consider that primary when
making decisions about cruising from and to the Port of Seattle.
Respectfully,

Tom Barnard
Seattle Cruise Control member and former Policy Analyst for the Port of Seattle Commission



From:            Bernedine Lund
To:                Commission-Public-Records
Subject:           [EXTERNAL] public comment for today"s PoS Commissioner meeting
Date:              Tuesday, January 25, 2022 6:00:31 AM
Attachments:      2-24-2022 POS Public Comment.pdf

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I was going to make this a life comment, but realized that I have a pet medical appt at
1 today, so will have to listen to the video. I hope that you or someone will be given
the opportunity to summarize the comments, as last time the written putlic
commentss were omitted.
Thank you for distributing this.
Bernedine Lund

POS Commissioner's Meeting, Jan 24, 2022, Public Comment by Bernedine Lund, resident of
Federal Way and volunteer for 350 Seattle aviation group 
Topic: Cost/benefit ratio of air travel 
One of the main arguments for growth of the aviation industry is the demand for flights. In
previous comments it was pointed out that aviation only looks at the benefits of aviation, like
jobs, delivery of goods, etc. What is missing is the costs of the aviation, which range from costs
of include costs for health events like heart attacks, strokes, etc. from aircraft emissions and
noise, and decreased learning in children who grow up near airports. There are many studies at
different airports around the world that show these results. The 2018 WHO Guidelines on
Noise summarize the effects of poor health to noise alone.
Another cost to take into account is the cost of climate change. After the past few years,
everyone can see that climate disasters are happing more frequently and are very costly.
Recently on Sept, 6, 2021, the British Guardian reported on a study done by Cambridge
University, University College London, and Imperial College London, as well as partners in
Switzerland, Germany, the US, and Austria. The study reported that a flight from the United
Kingdom to New York would cost the global economy more than $3,000 in the long run due to
the climate crisis. Adding the costs from health impacts and climate change may be more that
the benefit aviation.
There is still no large scale way to reduce or eliminate the green house gases that contribute to
global climate change soon enough to slow the climate change. The only sure way to reduce
the green house gases is to reduce or eliminate the flights. This also means that there is no
need for expansion of the airport to accommodate more flights. If money is not spent on
expansion of the airport, what else could you do with the money to contribute to the
community?



From:            Share The Cities Action Fund
To:                Commission-Public-Records
Subject:           [EXTERNAL] Public Comment - Written January 25, 2022
Date:              Monday, January 24, 2022 2:17:06 PM

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Dear Seattle Port Commissioners,
Thanks for your service to our community. The Port of Seattle is doing very important work
and can have such an influential role in a just transition to a greener economy, not just in
Seattle but all around the world.
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Cruise Ship Terminal
Share The Cities Action Fund, a grassrootsnon-profit organization focused on land use
advocacy, is delighted to hear that the 3rd Terminal has been canceled.
Now that cruise terminal plans have been canceled, we hear that the Port has shared plans to
use Terminal 46 as a redeveloped cargo port. We join with Seattle Cruise Control to urge the
commissioners to consider other possibilities, for example, using the terminal as a staging
area for offshore wind turbine development.
Additionally:Will the Port of Seattle release a statement about the continuing lack of safety
around cruise ships and not testing patients who are disembarking, plus maybe look aat how a
lot of other communities and cities are doing a lot more than Seattle to address the appalling
shortcomings of the cruise industry?

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Public Broadband
Although we are aware this is not on the agenda, Share The Cities Action Fund volunteers in
our Upgrade King County working group would like the Port of Seattle to convene a
commissionalong with King County to study how to deliver public broadband fiber to every
community member across the county. The funds from the federal government are there,
we just need a government entity (or multiple entities), convening a group to study this in a
serious manner and develop a timeline, benchmarks and an actionable plan to make this
happen.
Will the Port of Seattle make an official announcementabout the future Terminal 46?
How do we get public broadband on the agenda for a meeting this year?

Thanks again for your service to our communities.

These are written comments and not a request for a spot during public testimony tomorrow.
--


Laura Loe
she/her
Share The Cities Action Fund
www.sharethecitiesactionfund.org












From:            Jordan Van Voast
To:               Commission-Public-Records
Subject:           Re: [EXTERNAL] public comment signup for January 25
Date:             Monday, January 24, 2022 3:31:23 PM
Attachments:      public comment 1.25.23.docx
Thank you, I am attaching a copy of my comments for the Commissioners and relevant staff
regarding comments about the Port's cruise ship business.
warm regards,
Jordan Van Voast

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 9:33 AM Commission-Public-Records  wrote:
Thank you Jordan Van Voast,

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You should expect to be on the line for between 30-60 minutes as we dispose of preliminary
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From: Jordan Van Voast 
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2022 2:31 PM
To: Commission-Public-Records 
Subject: [EXTERNAL] public comment signup for January 25


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Dear Commission-Public-Records,

Please register me for public comment for January 25. Topic: cruise ships. I will try to write back
again with a more specific agenda item I will be addressing.

Thank you,

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Good afternoon Commissioners, my name is Jordan Van Voast. If reports are true1 and you've finally 
cancelled the third cruise terminal, I offer thanks and congratulations. Our group, Seattle Cruise Control 
has a mission and vision that eventually you will cancel the other two cruise ship terminals.2 I urge you 
to be courageous and help the people of our region to look up3 and grasp the reality that if we continue 
to burn fossil fuels for nonessential travel, there's little hope for making the really difficult reductions in 
emissions necessary to prevent runaway climate warming. Cutting out global cruise travel is low 
hanging fruit in the race to save a livable world for our children and 90% of species on the planet.4 
Climate scientists calculate that we need to cut our total global greenhouse gas emissions in half in the 
next 8 years, from 60 gigatons5 annually, to 30 gigatons6. Global emission pathways based on current 
policies will lead to at least 3 degrees Celsius of warming. We've already experienced 1 degree of 
warming in the last century and a half and the effects are catastrophic and disproportionately felt by 
Black and Brown people in the Global South. If the Port is serious about its equity commitments, this 
inconvenient truth needs to be faced and rectified. If the Port is serious about aligning with climate 
science, it needs to work with the state legislature to revise its authorizing charter so that economic 
expansion isn't blindly tied to the fossil fuel intensive travel industry. The Port's mission is essentially to 
bring prosperity to the workers and people of the region. I believe there are many ways to achieve this 
outside of the traditional paradigm of internal combustion engines, but it will require all of us to heal 
our individual and collective trauma7 so that our minds can work together creatively and imaginatively.
Thank you. 



1 https://www.kuow.org/stories/how-the-port-of-seattle-is-whittling-away-
at-supply-chain-backlogs 
2 https://www.theurbanist.org/2022/01/21/third-cruise-terminal-cancelled-
activists-call-on-port-of-seattle-to-phase-out-cruise-ships/ 
3 The 2021 film, "Don't Look Up" parodies mainstream media in its
trivialization and denial of the climate crisis and modern techno culture for
its fixation on profit rather than true solutions:
https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357 
4 The data and reflective inspiration for this comment derives from a
presentation by Kritee Kanko, PhD., a climate scientist and Zen priest in
the following YouTube video: https://youtu.be/fWT8sfhDO8E 
5 (CO
2 equivalents)  note that many website conflate CO2 emissions with
total greenhouse gas emissions, which include other gases such as
methane.
6 Ibid.
7 https://youtu.be/fWT8sfhDO8E

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