TOXIC SPILL

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Posted on 1st December 2012 by Administrator in Economy |Politics |Social Issues

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Ironically, tests showed that the toxic spill actually improved the quality of the water in the Mantua Creek. It is New Jersey you know.

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  1. KaD says:

    Let’s not forget this one:

    The cleanup technique used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico actually made the spilled oil more than 50 times more toxic than doing nothing, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes (UAA), Mexico. The findings were published in the journal Environmental Pollution.

    Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/038171_Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill_toxicity.html#ixzz2DqF9DfnN

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    1st December 2012 at 5:23 pm

  2. JIMSKI says:

    I read somewhere about that chemical concoction used at horizon. It was the equivelent of using a gas soaked rag to clean a booger of your kids face.

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    1st December 2012 at 5:58 pm

  3. TeresaE says:

    KaD, why am I not surprised by this?

    At the time, when the MSM was highlighting the “revolutionary and extraordinary” measures being concocted on the fly by the EPA and clean-up team, I wondered what evils would be lurking.

    Seems like everytime we try to outmaneuver Ma Nature, she laughs in our faces.

    The government seems to be clueless to see this recurring pattern.

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    1st December 2012 at 6:03 pm

  4. SAH says:

    If Dagny Taggart had just been allowed to rebuild this line with Rearden Metal, this never would have happened. But instead we have a corrupt government, corporate welfare, and crumbling infrastructure. Who is John Galt? *Shrug*

    @KaD and TeresaE – the EPA requires the use of that dispersant for oil spills – and it wasn’t concocted “on the fly” EPA regulations did and still do require it. If another spill happened today, the same dispersant would be mandated to be used in the cleanup. Thank god we have the EPA to protect the environment with their great regulations.

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    1st December 2012 at 6:26 pm

  5. AKAnon says:

    I was wondering what was in the tanker-sort of looks like the oil tankers we have up here, but not quite. Apparently it is vinyl chloride, which I assume is used for some plastic industry. Sounds pretty nasty.

    http://news.yahoo.com/jersey-derailment-safe-hazmat-rail-shipments-222724502.html;_ylt=A2KJjbwDpbpQUUMAjnjQtDMD

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    1st December 2012 at 7:51 pm

  6. Administrator says:

    Investigation, cleanup of hazardous chemicals on hold after NJ bridge collapse

    Published: 1 December, 2012, 19:29

    A New Jersey bridge that collapsed after a train derailed is awaiting cleanup and investigation, just three years after the structure’s first collapse. Officials are determining the best way to remove hazardous chemicals still inside the tanker cars.

    Environmental experts, train company officials and their contractors are deciding the best way to remove the harmful substances, which are now in a solid state.

    The Friday accident sent four tanker cars into a creek and spewed hazardous gas into the air in Paulsboro, New Jersey, sickening dozens of people.

    A Friday reading showed high levels of vinyl chloride in the air, prompting authorities to evacuate several hundred residents. More than 70 people were sent to the hospital with breathing problems.

    “[We’re] not certain if the bridge failed or the track failed, but obviously something failed,” state Assemblyman John Burzichelli said in a statement.

    Local authorities told AP that the job of lifting the tanker cars is so intense that no cranes in the Philadelphia area were strong enough to handle it. A stronger crane is being floated in by barge from New York Harbor.

    Once the crane arrives, the operation must be very careful to avoid any further ruptures to derailed cars.

    It’s not the first time the Paulsboro rail bridge has collapsed – the same structure gave way just three years ago. The accident forced a train pulling coal cars off its tracks and sent 16 cars into the water.

    The bridge was rebuilt in 2009, but a professor of structural engineering at Rowan University, Dr. Ralph Dusseau, says it’s uncommon for such bridges to collapse on their own unless they have structural flaws.

    “It sounds like that bridge needs to be replaced with something not moveable. Two collapses in that amount of time is a problem,” he told CourierPostOnline.com

    The Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) last inspection of the bridge was conducted in January 2010. Inspectors reported there were “no defects noted,” according to FRA documents provided to the South Jersey Times.

    It remains unclear what caused the 83-car train to derail. Members of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are aiming to determine whether the accident was caused by a fault with the bridge, or if the derailment is to blame for the bridge’s collapse.

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    1st December 2012 at 8:34 pm

  7. Muck About says:

    I seem to remember an Interstate bridge falling into the Mississippi not long ago.. Now a railroad bridge fails under stress. Just straws in the wind for infrastructure that’s not being renewed or repaired for lack of productive funds. Wait until it fails and then fix it. Cheaper that way.

    Not my America, people. Not my country.. Not my people (with a few TBP exceptions).

    We’re so screwed. This will not be the last failure. Sometime, after Admin destroys all records of my real email address (including URL), I’ll tell the tail of a small investigation I did on the Florida power grid over the last few weeks – continuing for another week or two.

    I could knock out all of South Florida with no effort at all. Not that I’d ever do it, but if I can figure out how, so can the bad guys.

    Just another sign of what’s coming – dark nights and hungry days.

    MA

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    1st December 2012 at 8:55 pm

  8. fool on the hill says:

    Vinyl chloride is the monomer (building block) of polyvinyl chloride as in plastic water pipe.

    It is polymerized (stuck together like a string of pop beads chemically until it becomes a solid.

    In the sixties Stauffer Chemical had a vinyl chloride plant in Delaware City Del.

    I worked in a refinery a mile or so away for about three months.

    Many of their employees were found to suffer from LIVER CANCER.

    I moved to northern Appalachia on the side of a mountain (lower side) in 1966 and even built a house for my then lady friend. She bought stuff I built with the stuff.

    She chose to stay in the Philadelphia area for the good wages.

    Twenty odd years passed.

    she came up on occasional weekends.

    In a panic she sold the house for about sixty cents on the dollar and a short time later lost a battle with breast cancer.

    This Easter I will have outlived her by seventeen years.

    I survived Vietnam but watching her die will probably be the toughest thing I will ever have to do.

    “The best chance you have is the one you take.” It was for me and I cannot help thinking it could have been for her.

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    1st December 2012 at 10:53 pm

  9. Kill Bill says:

    I survived Vietnam but watching her die will probably be the toughest thing I will ever have to do. -foth

    Souls do not cease to exist, they only change form

    You have not lost a soul mate, you have gained an angel

    As is my belief =)

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    1st December 2012 at 11:12 pm

  10. Novista says:

    fool,

    I know where you’re coming from, having outlived two wives. Both with cancer, and I was there from go to woe.

    If KB is right, the next phase should be interesting. (But I think they were angels long before I met them.)

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    1st December 2012 at 6:15 am

  11. KaD says:

    I says alot about our culture that women many times fall for players and douchbags instead of solid dependable guys like Fool.

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    1st December 2012 at 11:11 am

  12. Stucky says:

    Weird. Our water actual tasted BETTER the last few days.

    Now I know why. Thanks for posting this.

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    1st December 2012 at 11:53 am

  13. AWD says:

    New Jersey is one giant toxic spill/waste dump.

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    1st December 2012 at 12:25 pm

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