Posted on 02/16/2023 3:05:18 PM PST by Beave Meister
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said Monday that Norfolk Southern requested and was granted the controlled release of chemicals, including deadly viny chloride, following the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine provided more insight Monday evening into how the controlled release of chemicals came to be following the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. DeWine told the press Monday evening: “We looked at the danger of a controlled release which is what the railroad company felt should be done. We then went ahead with the second option, which was the controlled release.”
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“There would be foam options readily available”
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As is so often the case viable options to problems are usually overridden by political considerations. Just saying.
I have a feeling he’s going to be run out of town!
From a post from Millenial Millie it could be DeWine might have in fact made the correct choice.
DeWine is sure fumbling this catastrophe.
I agree and would modify your comment slightly "spray shrapnel and release a toxic materials for miles"
remember this clown , Bruce Vanderhoff, standing in a lab coat and bowtie on a track at Thomas Worthington High School and promising that the shot was “unquestionably safe and very, very effective.”
If they were, you vent them
Which form of controlled release was best may be debatable, but the alternative to a controlled release was an uncontrolled release, which seemed likely to happen at some point as the cylinders were heated by the fires.
But the water is safe to drink....
Senator JD Vance Pokes Stick in Ohio Creek; Instant Chemical Rainbow Appears
https://rumble.com/v29tofs-senator-jd-vance-pokes-stick-in-ohio-creek-instant-chemical-rainbow-appears.html
“Would an uncontrolled release have been better?”
The option you suggest was not the only option available.
Transferring the product into other vessels would have been far more time consuming than the toxic mushroom cloud burn. But that would have been time consuming and would have kept the tracks out of commission far longer. Not a solution that Norfolk Southern presented or contemplated.
Solution: A burn that creates a toxic cloud of Phosgene, Ethyl Hexel and Butyl Acetate to spread over the Western PA Amish and Mennonite organix farms, the Ohio River basin, and all of the local waterways, and soil.
Great control there.
I read if they had not done it there would have been a massive explosion.
I am not a fire fighter. My gut reaction would be to cool off the minimally damaged cars with water and let the ones on fire burn out.
He sounded pretty shifty at his last presser
No, Mike DeWine has been a political figure in Ohio since at least the mid 1970’s. In truth this is a silly uproar over a pretty normal rail accident.
Has Norfolk Southern gone woke? That may have a lot to do with how they operate.
I’d like to see the options and reasoning.
Otherwise it seems we have another bunch of Monday-morn armchair quarterbacks making glib judgements.
or any Norfolk Southern executives.
They all came from the same litter.
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