East Palestine Train Disaster Killed More than 43,000 Aquatic Animals, Ohio Agency Says

Breitbart ^ | 2.24.23 | ALANA MASTRANGELO

[conservative98]

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) estimates more than 43,000 fish and other aquatic animals have died as a result of the train disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month.

ODNR director Mary Mertz announced Thursday that roughly 38,222 minnows and about 5,550 other aquatic animals — such as small fish, crayfish, amphibians, and macroinvertebrates — were killed in the 5-mile span of waterway from the derailment site.

[ronnie raygun]

none were endangered species, move along

[SisterK]

Animas River disaster

IIRC the big oil well disaster (Gulf of Mexico) was also on obummers watch

the greenies are not about the environment
they are about seizing liberties

[GranTorino]

Its not only the panals.
They sterilize the soil before they set them up.
Salt the earth!
I delt with the ODNR recently. The field officers are great.
The people in Columbus, at the Morse rd office, are worthless affirmative action hires who have probably never seen nature outside the city limits.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Wait for people to start dying.

[logi_cal869]

“Safe to drink”

“overblown”

I’ve yet to see verification of exactly from whom the order came to blow up the cars, but all they did was take a toxic cleanup site and spread the dioxin contamination across multiple states, endangering the health of millions.

Point of fact, since I’ve not seen anyone else posit it:

If these had been train cars loaded with hydrocarbon industry chemicals - i.e., ‘oil company’ - both the news and government response would have been quite different.

[whitney69]

Typical. Save the whales but let over 38K minnows die and the publicity, or lack of, is just the opposite. How many spotted owls have they saved that feed nothing while letting the food source for thousands of animals die, including man, and you can hear crickets. Oh, did they die also?

wy69