Train derailments and explosions and chemical spills

The level of "apparent" incompetency is mind blowing.


Some people comment in this spirit about this,

EPA says it’s not safe for staff to go there, but yet the residents were told they could go home. This makes no sense. Let us know what you find out!
Seeing how Con-19 was handled I think it makes perfect sense. The only think that doctor forgot to say at that presser was "Put on your mask to be perfectly safe."

 

Here there are no trains, no bad highways... and it can also be news just because there are toxics involved. But! it seems strange to me that what is being burned is PVC (vinyl = dioxins).

This isn't a train derailment or explosion, but it falls under the category of chemical spillages which have been on the uptick:
Arizona highway closes after nitric acid leaks from tanker truck crash
The tanker crashed on Interstate 10 outside Tucson and the driver of the truck was killed.
Nitric acid is used to make ammonium nitrate for fertilizers and in the manufacture of plastics and dyes.
Very strange in connection with what Bluegazer posted about about the fertilizer factory.
 
From 2021

Just before 5 a.m. on August 2, 2017, Alice Murray was fast asleep when her entire house shook, almost as if a freight train had crashed into the block, she told the Cumberland Times-News.
That's exactly what happened.
About 30 yards away, just off Cleveland Street in Hyndman, Pennsylvania, 33 cars in a 178-car freight train belonging to CSX Corporation derailed. The train crashed into one house and damaged two others. The entire town had to be evacuated. Miraculously, no one was killed.


For the CEO's to get their bonuses they need to achieve certain goals. That then forces them to look to cut cost if they can not do it by generating profits through sales. In some businesses there is only one way to get better performance marks, cut costs. Problem is that eventually cutting more leads to dangerous situations. I think that is what is happening here.
 
Outbreak Of Train Derailments: Ohio Reporting Catastrophic Effects On Air, Water, Soil, Fish, Frogs and Animals Dying, Amidst Near Total Media Blackout
"Just so we're all clear... This was a controlled explosion conducted by our own government on our own homeland. The smoke you see is vinyl chloride, an extremely toxic chemical which is now in the Ohio River. This is America's Chernobyl"
"Do you guys realize how much farmland is in Ohio? There are 75,000 farms. 90% of them are family farming operations. There was just a TOXIC CHEMICAL INCIDENT there that was intentionally released with barley a whisper. This has a untold direct food supply chain impact"

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This case in Argentina (article in Spanish)
20,000 liters of acid spill by U.S. mining company under investigation in Argentina
The Ministry of Mining of the province of Catamarca, in Argentina, is investigating the spill of 20,000 liters of acid produced by the overturning of a truck belonging to the company Minera del Altiplano SA-Livent, which operates the mine called Proyecto Fénix, located in the Salar del Hombre Muerto in the department of Antofagasta de la Sierra, in the northwest of the country.

The incident occurred on February 4. According to preliminary information, the vehicle overturned 15 kilometers from the lithium mine managed by the U.S. firm, leaving the chemical product destined for the company's supplies on the ground.

According to the local Minister of Mining, Marcelo Murúa, after the spill, the safety protocols were activated and the company activated the emergency areas to be able to act. Now, the Government is analyzing all the documentation presented to determine what measures will be taken.

"According to the photographic record, the overturning of the vehicle and the spill of hazardous substances is confirmed, it was carrying acid and it is being investigated to know how it was acted at the time", said Murúa last Monday during an assembly on the exploitation of lithium in the province, reported the local newspaper El Ancasti.
 
Fox News published couple hours ago this video in which the governor of Ohio talks about this incident and that the air and water are clean. It also says that they still testing, but actually has no idea who is doing it. And in one moment (3 minute) when a journalist asked him why there were no birds, why the fish died and why many people coughed and felt that their lungs were burning, he laughed.
Also, after two weeks of the incident, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg commented incident saying this: There are roughly 1000 a year train derailing. [Ok, than, that's ok?]

 
Fox News published couple hours ago this video in which the governor of Ohio talks about this incident and that the air and water are clean.
I saw a live report done by a local (Cleveland) news station where the reporter stuck a stick into the bottom of the stream that runs through town and on to the Ohio river. He only stirred about one foot of the bottom a couple of times, the amount of chemicals that came up from the bottom was staggering! They are not cleaning up anything but what they can show selected news stations, with their news bites! This atrocious, farmland, animals, water supply all wiped out for many years, I suspect.
 
Remember the shuttle destruction. Here let me post the session.


(L) Exactly. Okay, you say that an EM pulse brought down the shuttle. (A) Where did the EM pulse come from?

A: From space based satellite.

Q: (A) Does NASA know about the cause?

A: There are some who suspect.

Q: (L) Which explains why they are so anxious to convince everyone that it was NOT sabotage. Like Wellstone's death, there was "no question" about it being a terrorist attack. The likelihood is that the Bush Junta was behind Wellstone's death. In both cases they "know" the cause and want to divert the attention away from it. But, in the case of the shuttle, they aren't "dirty," but they most definitely do NOT want anyone to realize that they also are not "in charge." It makes me think of the remark the C's made a few years ago about the reason for the Military Industrial Complex build-up and manipulations. C's said that the REAL enemy is "out there" and that war was just a "cover" to prevent the masses from realizing what they were really doing. Maybe Bush and the gang are really convinced, in their own minds, that they are acting to "protect" humanity from this threat. Meanwhile, they are simply being driven to fulfill the agenda of the Consortium. And it is so interesting that the shuttle broke up over Palestine, Texas... as though it was saying to Bush: this is what is going to happen to you: Palestine is going to be your destruction. But, of course, Bush would be incapable of perceiving it in that context. Is it so that a message was intended in this event?

A: As always, confusion is the mask.

Q: (L) In other words, everyone's reaction to the event will depend on their own context. There is the view that it was a "message to Bush." Bush and gang will, of course, see it only as a stimulus to faster and more "decisive" military action. So, it will really work on them the way it is wanted. (A) And of course, we wonder how they will make use of this event.

A message loud and clear again but this time to Biden. What do they have in common, Palestine, as signature of the perpetrator. So it seem that this is a message to push the war as the real treat may be closer than we think, well maybe a few small impact.
 
Some are calling this a dirty (chemical) nuke, so is that a hit for the C's?
FWIW, a dirty nuke is mentioned in the movie 'White Noise' (the movie with the bizarre similarities to the catastrophic Ohio toxic chemical leak and train derailment) which I find disturbing. It's very brief and barely audible. An evacuee in the movie says "They want you to think it’s a train crash, but actually it’s a dirty nuke." I only picked up on it because I had subtitles on when I re-watched some of the 'airborne toxic event' segment of the movie (didn't care to re-watch much else). .

The movie 'White Noise' is based on Don DeLillo's book of same title. I wonder if anything about a dirty nuke is mentioned in the book or if it is specific to the movie adaption.
 
The movie 'White Noise' is based on Don DeLillo's book of same title. I wonder if anything about a dirty nuke is mentioned in the book or if it is specific to the movie adaption.
My ears perked up earlier when I heard that author's name, Don DeLillo....I knew it was an important memory. Well it hit me. Years ago I bought his book Libra. It was around the time of 9/11. Anyway, I'm in this bookstore and I see an earlier book of his, "Underworld," and the cover eerily reminded me of the plane hitting the Twin Towers....even if it is only a large bird on the cover. See for yourself:


And he also writes, "White Noise?" Who the hell is Don DeLillo?
 
My ears perked up earlier when I heard that author's name, Don DeLillo....I knew it was an important memory. Well it hit me. Years ago I bought his book Libra. It was around the time of 9/11. Anyway, I'm in this bookstore and I see an earlier book of his, "Underworld," and the cover eerily reminded me of the plane hitting the Twin Towers....even if it is only a large bird on the cover. See for yourself:


And he also writes, "White Noise?" Who the hell is Don DeLillo?
I found this 2010 artilcle in the Guardian...creepy to say the least:

Don DeLillo: 'I'm not trying to manipulate reality – this is what I see and hear'​



SNIP:
DeLillo has devoted his writing to the shadow side of American life, painting a dysfunctional freaks' gallery of the wrecked (David Bell in Americana), the sick (Bill Gray in Mao II), the mad (Lee Harvey Oswald in Libra) and the suicidal (Eric Packer in Cosmopolis). In White Noise, the protagonist, Jack, who teaches Hitler studies, riffs hilariously on death and mass murder. It is said that DeLillo used to keep two files on his writing table, labelled "Art" and "Terror". In Mao II, he writes: "I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory." On some readings, his characters occupy this no-man's-land. His vision has been described as "paranoid" in the sense that it connects everything about his society.


In the process of exploring America, DeLillo has become credited with extraordinary powers of literary clairvoyance. The war on terror is said to be foreshadowed in Mao II. The planes that flew into the Twin Towers are possibly alluded to on the cover of Underworld. Parts of White Noise are echoed in the anthrax scare of 2001, and so on.

Fellow writers talk with admiration of DeLillo's creative radar. The truth is that DeLillo is wired into contemporary America from the ground up, spookily attuned to the weird vibrations of popular culture and the buzz of everyday, ordinary conversations on bus and subway. According to Joyce Carol Oates, he is "a man of frightening perception", an all-American writer who sees and hears his country like no other.

 
More developments:

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This Is Disgusting: J.D. Vance Scrapes Creek Bed With Stick After Train Crash, Oily Substance Emerges In Viral Video
Footage of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) disturbing a creek bed in East Palestine, Ohio, and causing chemical bubbles to rise to the surface garnered millions of views as the nation becomes increasingly concerned about the fallout from the nearby Norfolk Southern train derailment.
The footage comes after federal and state officials insisted that the water in East Palestine is currently potable. The EPA said that “test results from the village’s municipal well sampling showed no water quality concerns,” while Governor Mike DeWine (R-OH) announced that tests conducted by the Ohio EPA revealed “no detection of contaminants in raw water from the five wells that feed into East Palestine’s municipal water system.” He added that the agency is “confident that the municipal water is safe to drink.”

Fox 19 anchor Tricia Macke shared a similar video in which she threw a rock into a creek and caused chemicals to rise to the surface. “Would you stay here? Would you drink that water?” she asked. “Would you bathe your kids when it’s bubbling up and looking like an oil slick?”
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Beyond concerns with the water, residents have mentioned a lingering smell in the air, deceased wildlife and livestock, and various health issues. One first responder said in an interview with The Daily Wire that he and his colleagues experienced “bad cough, headaches, sore throat, and diarrhea” after assisting community members impacted by the derailment.

They Should Be Willing To Drink It: EPA Administrator Says Water Is Safe After Ohio Train Crash, J.D. Vance Invites Him To Take A Sip
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) challenged EPA Administrator Michael Regan to drink a glass of tap water in East Palestine, Ohio, after the agency claimed the water supply was safe despite the small town’s recent Norfolk Southern train derailment and toxic chemical disaster.

Heres a parking lot full of DEAD BIRDS in Lexington, KY. 350 miles SW of East Palestine, OH.

Biden DOJ Backing Norfolk Southerns Bid To Block Lawsuits
A looming Supreme Court decision could end up making it easier for the railroad giant whose train derailed in Ohio this month to block lawsuits, including from victims of the disaster.

In the case against Norfolk Southern, the Biden administration is siding with the railroad in its conflict with a cancer-stricken former rail worker. A high court ruling for Norfolk Southern could create a national precedent limiting where workers and consumers can bring cases against corporations.

The lawsuit in question, filed initially in a Pennsylvania county court in 2017, deals with a state law that permits plaintiffs to file suit against any corporation registered to do business there, even if the actions that gave rise to the case occurred elsewhere.

In its fight against the lawsuit, Norfolk Southern is asking the Supreme Court to uphold the lower court ruling, overturn Pennsylvania’s law, and restrict where corporations can be sued, upending centuries of precedent.

CHEMICAL WARNING: Being exposed to just 1/32 millionth of a gram of DIOXINS is your maximum LIFETIME allowable exposure
A massive, dark plume hovered menacingly over Palestine, Ohio, on Monday, February 6. This plume comes from a series of “controlled explosions” that occurred after a massive train derailment by Norfolk Southern Railroad.

In order to clear the tracks and prevent explosions, the state ordered a “controlled release” of toxic vinyl chloride from the tankers. These “controlled explosions” were approved by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine. The official story is that the government feared that the chemicals would explode uncontrollably, so they ordered the chemicals be strategically released from five derailed tanker cars and then burned in pits. However, the derailment and the explosions released one of the most toxic substances known to man: dioxins.

Massive dioxin plume could warrant a ghost town scenario​

The government and the media fail to mention that these “controlled explosions” are both an environmental and human health disaster that could warrant a permanent evacuation of the area, leading to a potential ghost town scenario. When polyvinyl chloride is burned, it creates a pervasive poison called dioxin. Dioxins are not some benign vapor or campfire smoke that can be inhaled without biological consequence. In fact, according to EPA standards, being exposed to just 1/32 millionth of a gram of dioxins is the maximum lifetime allowable exposure to this biological poison! However, there are no reports of dioxin testing being conducted by the industry, or local, state, or federal officials. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently allowing residents to return to their homes and claiming it’s safe to do so.

Neil Donahue, professor of chemistry at Carnegie Mellon, said he worries that the controlled explosions have unleashed dioxins, which are created from burning chlorinated carbon materials. “Vinyl chloride is bad, dioxins are worse as carcinogens and that comes from burning,” Donahue said.
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This dioxin disaster will be felt for years to come​

Dioxins are degradation byproducts of chlorine-based chemicals. Whenever a chlorinated compound is burned, dioxins are created. The plastics industry, which uses polyvinyl chloride, is typically the top polluter. Some of the most serious sources of dioxins include house fires, chemical spills, and trash incineration. Any manufacturing process that involves chlorine (like paper bleaching) also releases dioxins. Feminine products that have been bleached may cause toxic shock syndrome, because of dioxins. Dioxins are also found in trace amounts in some herbicides and wood preservatives.

Dioxin was the principal cancer-causing compound Agent Orange, used in Vietnam. Dioxin also goes by the abbreviation 2,3,7,8 and is sometimes called Dibenzofurans or TCDD. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a form of dioxins. These highly carcinogenic compounds were formerly used in industrial and consumer products, but their production was banned in the United States by the Toxic Substances Control Act in 1979 and internationally at the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001.

Dioxins are so toxic they caused a complete evacuation of Times Beach, Missouri in 1983. Times Beach is just 17 miles southwest of St. Louis and 2 miles east of Eureka, Missouri. The city was unincorporated and abandoned because of civilian exposure to dioxin contamination from industrial sources. The area was never re-inhabited, but in 2001, the EPA took the site off its Superfund list and a state park was opened on a 419-acre site there.

These dioxins are not something that drifts away and degrades; they are not something that can be forgotten tomorrow. Chemically, dioxins have a double benzene ring structure, making them extremely durable and persistent. Studies show that dioxins build up in the food chain in lipids and cause lipid metabolism disorders. They are also bioactive, will disrupt hormones, and pass through breast milk.

The dioxins created from this “controlled burn” will pollute the soil and water for many years to come. As the plume rolls across Pennsylvania and New York State, large population centers will be acutely exposed to one of the most toxic man-made substances. Cancer clusters, hormonal disorders, and further immune depletion will be the inevitable result of this tragedy and the string of hasty decisions and cover-ups that came thereafter.
 

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