b'FOGHORNFOCUS: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUESThe first hybrid-electric Olympic Class ferry will join Washington State Ferries fleet in 2024. Credit: Vigorwhether drawing on main engine power, battery power or afishing and hunting rights and establishing reservations combination of the two. The battery power can also extendin exchange for the land. These tribes exist today whose zero-emissions capability along the supply chain by usingancestors signed the Point Elliott Treaty: Lummi Nation, renewables and hydroelectric power.Muckleshoot, Nooksack, Samish, Sauk-Suiattle, Snoqualmie, Moving toward a dramatically reduced-emission futureStillaguamish, Suquamish, Swinomish, Tulalip Tribes, and relies on technologies that meet the environmental and costUpper Skagit. Their common language is Lushootseed.needs of todayand offer flexibility to integrate futureWhen Washington State Ferries set out to build this new energy sources in the years ahead, said Juha Koskela,terminal, ferry leaders gathered input from several groups, Managing Director, ABB Marine & Ports. ABB is delightedone of which was the local tribes who fi shed these waters to support this milestone project demonstrating the way thatand thrived on these shores long before European settlers electric, digital and connected solutions can deliver ship- arrived. The City of Mukilteo and residents asked that the pings zero-emission future.new terminal be green, Washington State required it to Green and LEED Certi ed Terminal be LEED-certifi ed, local tribes asked for it to be light on the In addition, WSF is replacing a seismically vulnerableearth. These three requests melded perfectly in a passenger ferry terminal with a new one, a third of a mile down thebuilding designed in the form of a Coast Salish longhouse coast, that will be green, LEED-certifi ed, and light on thewith light-on-the earth features, such as:earth. Most recently, the site of the new Mukilteo ferryA full roof of solar panels that will generate energy to run terminal was home to a U.S. Air Force fueling station,terminal operations, with the excess energy sent to the abandoned after the Cold War. Soon it will be a bustling ferrygrid, and;terminal connecting Whidbey Island to the Seattle-EverettPassive cooling via mechanical windows that automati-metro areas. cally open to let in cool marine air and large ceiling fans According to WSF, its a storied place. More than ato circulate itthousand years ago, it is believed the Snohomish peopleRadiant floor heating to warm the passenger building had a year-round village near the land spit and adjoininginterior using less energy, and; salt marsh that is now Mukilteo. In 1855, it was the site of the signing of the Point Elliott Treaty between the U.S.Rainwater harvesting that funnels water to storage tanks Government and the Snohomish people, securing theirwhere its reused in the restrooms.n12JULY 2020FOGHORN'