Posted on 05/19/2023 11:51:29 AM PDT by Twotone
Some 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used as both fertilizer and a component in explosives, went missing as it was shipped by rail from Wyoming to California last month, prompting four separate investigations.
A railcar loaded with 30 tons of the chemical left Cheyenne, Wyoming, on April 12. The car was found to be empty after it arrived two weeks later at a rail stop in the Mojave Desert, according to a short incident report from the explosives firm that made the shipment.
The company, Dyno Nobel, made the report May 10 to the federal National Response Center, or NRC. The report also appeared last week in an NRC database of California incidents managed by the state Office of Emergency Services last Wednesday. ‘The initial assessment is that a leak through the bottom gate on the railcar may have developed in transit.’ Dyno Nobel press statement
Ammonium nitrate is commonly used as fertilizer. It’s also an ingredient in high explosives and was used in the homemade bomb detonated in the 1995 attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Dyno Nobel says it believes the material — transported in pellet form in a covered hopper car similar to those used to ship coal — fell from the car on the way to a rail siding (a short track connecting with the main track) called Saltdale about 30 miles from the town of Mojave in eastern Kern County.
“The railcar was sealed when it left the Cheyenne facility, and the seals were still intact when it arrived in Saltdale. The initial assessment is that a leak through the bottom gate on the railcar may have developed in transit,” the company said through a spokesperson.
A Federal Railroad Administration representative, though, says the investigation points to one of the hopper car gates not being properly closed.
Dyno Nobel says the trip lasted two weeks and included multiple stops. The company says it had “limited control” over the railcar as Union Pacific moved it through the country. It says the railcar is being transported back to Wyoming for inspection. And it says it hopes to understand how the shipment was lost and will work to prevent something similar happening again.
The Federal Railroad Administration, the California Public Utilities Commission, Union Pacific and Dyno Nobel are investigating the incident, according to their representatives.
Congress passed a law in 2007 to regulate the sale and transfer of ammonium nitrate to prevent its use in acts of terrorism. The Department of Homeland Security issued proposed regulations in 2011 (PDF) but stopped short of formally adopting them.
They couldn’t have just disappeared into thin air, so don’t worry... they’ll eventually “show up”.
A similar incident happened in the TV Show Breaking Bad
Hopefully show up in some Blue city with a bang..
Here we go, I’m thinking a boarder crosser is panning something.
More than likely it went to illegal pot farms. AN doesn’t go boom all by itself, it needs a fire.
Yes-showed just how it could be done-several of us referred to that episode on a thread yesterday...
Mix it with diesel fuel, and a blasting cap/ stick of Dynamite = BOOM!
check out the pot farms
Get ready for a false flag. The 0’Biden FBI needs something BIG to ‘prove’ that White Supremacists are the biggest threat to the world (next to ‘Global Warming’ anyway.).
The car was found to be empty after it arrived two weeks later at a rail stop in the Mojave Desert,
= = =
And, just what was at this ‘destination rail stop’?
Saltdale is an abandoned salt mining location in the middle of nowhere.
The Texas City disaster collectively involved explosions of 100x what’s missing here.
False flag incoming.
Texas City went missing.
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