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Open Letter to the Berkeley City Council Re: Diesel-powered Ferry
Charlene M. Woodcock
Thursday March 09, 2023 - 02:17:00 PM
Dear Mayor and City Council members,
It is very disturbing to learn that WETA, in spite of promises of electric ferries, has instead based cost projections on the purchase of dirty, polluting diesel ferries.
If the ferries purchased for the planned new Bay ferry service for the Berkeley Marina are diesel, they will make a mockery of any claim that this ferry service is environmentally beneficial. The proposed ferry service, promoted as a replacement for gas-powered cars, cannot be justified if the ferries are powered by any of the fossil fuels that drive the climate crisis.
Paul Kamen, Chairman of the Berkeley Waterfront Commission has stated this clearly, with substantiating facts in this piece published March 7 in Berkeleyside:
Please show us that you grasp the seriousness of the climate crisis and require electric, ferries for any Berkeley ferry service.
Thank you.
