Rail Company HIDING From Poisoned Ohio Residents | Breaking Points

Some of The Railroad cars weren't listed as Hazardous Materials and the Trains are Still using Civil War Brakes !!

The Ohio residents should be happy with all this. They voted Republican and Republicans hate regulation so this is what they voted for.

Who cares about a massive disaster that affects millions of people? There are balloons in the sky! BALLOONS…..IN THE SKY!

Stinking Norfolk Southern needs to be nationalized

You don't have to be an environmental scientist to make simple observations and deductions.

Vinyl chloride is a gas- but it isn't transported in that state. It's pressurized to the point of being a liquid. A tanker car full of vinyl chloride in its gaseous state wouldn't amount to much. By pressurizing it until it liquifies, thousands of times the volume can be transported. Propane is a gas, too. But it isn't a gas inside the cylinder you attach to your BBQ grille. Same concept.

The "controlled release" consisted of lighting the already leaking LIQUID vinyl chloride, that was turning into a gas as it was exposed to the atmosphere, on fire. Everyone saw the mangled mess of rail cars- what was meant by "controlled" was the duration of time and quantity the raw chemical was allowed to seep into the ground.

The fire burned up the majority of the vinyl chloride. Combustion is an oxidative process, which means that a "controlled release" of vinyl chloride reduces it oxidatively to simpler compounds. A quick search reveals those compounds to be hydrogen chloride, carbon dioxide and traces of phosgene gas.

Hydrogen chloride, carbon dioxide and traces of phosgene gas will quickly be diluted in the open atmosphere, and winds will reduce the concentration even further. Which means that OF COURSE the air quality will soon be what it was before the derailment. That's how dilution works.

The concern, and what the EPA isn't talking about, is SOIL contamination, and following that to its logical conclusion- GROUNDWATER contamination, by 1) the unknown quantity of LIQUID vinyl chloride that seeped into the ground before it was burned and 2) the somewhat less toxic cloud of black soot and smoke that settled back down to Earth after it was burned, which will be carried underground by the first rain fall.

If air quality is the only metric by which you judge the safety of people returning to East Palestine, it's probably past the danger point. But the long-term effects of exposure to these chemicals over future decades of living there are just as important. You can't hide the effects of a toxic gas cloud that kills immediately, but you sure as hell can obfuscate the toxicity of decades-long exposure to the same crap.

Twenty years from now- no A FEW years from now- Norfolk Southern will simply say: Cancer? So, sue us and PROVE IT. We cleaned it up and the EPA certified the area as safe. Air quality tests said so.

They will NEVER, EVER dip into their ten BILLION dollar, pure profit per year cash cow to help the people who live there any more than they were willing to spend less on stock buybacks to ensure the trains were up to standard in the first place. The fines against them will not scratch the surface of the billions the company has already made. They must be held accountable financially NOW, while its still fresh in a jury's mind, by each and every resident of East Palestine.

"They fear for their public safety."

Someone send them a case of Ohio water for their bugout bags.

lock them up

It’s wild that when they didn’t know anything about Covid it was the complete opposite response. Now they are rushing the numbers the other way to say it’s ok! This hypocrisy sums up the Democratic Party

I assume the Whitehouse doesn’t care about this issue because Ohio is a state that has become so out of reach for their administration. Likewise, I believe if an accident like this occurred in a blue state, a Republican President such as Trump might not seem eager to respond and resolve such a disastrous incident, and take necessary preventions from ever happening again.

More bulshit going down under biden good job Krystal..

It Just feels a bit like "it's only 3.6 roetgen" 🤦‍♂️

They didn’t want to go to the Town Hall meeting because they know that the town is contaminated and they are fearful of getting ill.

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Thanks, Krystal & Saagar

I really don't understand how Krystal keeps trying to tie back into the Rail workers strike…….. Were they asking for increased capital maintenance expenditures or more money and more vacation time? Pretty sure it was the vacation and money……… I doubt that BNSF offering to double maintenance expenditures instead of giving them a raise and vacation time would have ended the potential rail strike…….

Yeah corporate greed could be a major factor but the rail workers never wanted increased maintenance spending and the ONLY time I ever heard anything about "safety" from rail work who came on this or similar shoes was stuff in relation to long work hours and extended time away from home.

I've heard it said that if people knew what was regularly being hauled on these trains through their neighborhoods, it wouldn't be long before freight trains never came close to a populated area ever again.