#ohio chemical disaster

[iliterallydecepticanteven]

As someone living in the area estimated to soon be affected by the Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical spill in East Palestine, I wanna make one thing clear right now: the people affected by the chemical spill do not "deserve it."

I know there's this weird trend where when a disaster happens in Appalachia or the South, people say that those affected "deserve it" because the state voted majority red or they're backwoods hillbillies or some other insult. No, no we don't. A bunch of rich Republican fucks gerrymandered the hell out of our states so they could stay in office and then didn't help upkeep the infrastructure of the state leading to catastrophes like this. The train derailed because the braking system on the tracks was ancient and hadn't been updated due to politicians not providing funding for upkeep. And now a bunch of people have to live with the consequences while the same bastards who caused this accident can just up and leave and live somewhere safer.

This shit should infuriate you regardless of where you live in the US. Because at the end of the day, something very similar could happen to you.

[samuraisharkie]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP SHARING THE OHIO POST BY INNESKEEPER ITS EXTREMELY TRIGGERING AND TERRIFYING. REBLOG THE SEPARATE VERSION FROM MS-DEMEANOR INSTEAD!!!! PLEASE. FOR EVERYONE’S SAKE, ESPECIALLY THE ORIGINAL POSTER’S, STOP REBLOGGING THAT POST, EVEN WITH THE CORRECTED INFO ON IT.

[rickmctumbleface]

We can accomplish so much with no regulation and no oversight! 😒

[kingdrawcse]

Pray For Ohio ...

Ohio train derailment: 15k pounds of contaminated soil, 1.1M gallons of contaminated water excavated from the site.

A train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, with about 50 cars running off the tracks on February 3. Hazardous chemicals included Vinyl chloride (75-01-4), Butyl acrylate (141-32-2), 2-Ethylhexyl acrylate (103-11-7), 2-Butoxyethanol (111-76-2), Isobutene (115-11-7), etc. To prevent an explosion, emergency teams conducted a controlled release and burning of five canisters of vinyl chloride, causing a huge black cloud to form over the area. The derailment has also raised concerns among local residents about air, soil, and water pollution.

BREAKING NEWS: 70 miles from East Palestine, a Bedford, Ohio Metal Processing Plant has exploded. "Mass casualties" The area is covered in debris, and thick smoke can be seen from miles away.

Undoubtedly, it is a nationwide campaign of sabotage going on in the USA.

BREAKING NEWS: 70 miles from East Palestine, a Bedford, Ohio Metal Processing Plant has exploded. "Mass casualties" The area is covered in debris, and thick smoke can be seen from miles away.

Undoubtedly, it is a nationwide campaign of sabotage going on in the USA.

[canadianabroadvery]

Germany - Timo Essner - 18 February 2023

Ohio Chemical DisasterCartoon by Timo Essner on the Ohio chemical disaster and authorities and the railway company handling the situation

[timmurleyart]

East Palestine Ohio. 💨🚂💥💨⚫️🛢

[gnarlymetalghost]

i’m so sorry letterboxd user Tyler

[polyglot-thought]

[Korean->English] @conpaper 3:08 AM February 14th 2023 Tweet - Color Coded Translation

Link to original tweet

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미 오하이오, 독성 화학물질 열차 탈선으로 공포에 빠져

Ohio, USA, toxic chemical train derailment causes people to leave in terror

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Please correct me if I made a mistake

[samuraisharkie]

hey while come after inneskeeper for having an episode in public is awful, I also don’t appreciate the people yes-manning it up in their notes going ‘no this was warranted we SHOULD be freaking out we have every right to feel like the world is ending’. y’all are encouraging them to spiral further into conspiratorial thinking and doom posting???? that’s extremely shitty. yea we have environmental issues that are very serious and urgent. we shouldn’t be fucking panicking or encouraging others to panic about it though. that is not even close to a proper solution nor is it a way to live. you guys are just basically going ‘no you did nothing wrong people have no right to be mad this was a reasonable reaction anyone that’s upset about this is a bully <3’. more and more people are still jumping on the panic bandwagon bc of seeing the original post, and then refusing to accept the corrected info. I really wish they had just made the post unable to be reblogged instead of deleting it. the corrected info exists outside of that awful post, so put it in the dirt man. I’m still frustrated about how this was handled and how people are still going about this.

[ace-scientist]

adding onto this, another red flag was the source of the screenshotted tweets in the post:

They're claiming that there's an obvious disaster affecting a large area, but a complete media blackout. That in and of itself is not plausible, but the main source getting around this cover-up is...a random falconry company? With a pinned tweet defending that they're not a joke or scam? And journalism or environmental science credentials? Or located in Ohio?

If it truly is a story where there's not enough (national/international) media coverage, you will be able to find more sources besides one random Twitter account with a pinned tweet saying they're definitely totally legit. Look for local media stories, and for independent journalists writing about it. Even if their reporting hasn't been published outside of social media, you can see from their account that they have a history of articles published by reputable sources. The "media/government is covering this up!!!" framing encourages you to not check the sources or look for additional unrelated sources, but stopping to think about this for a minute makes it clear that the source of this story has SO many red flags.

re: ohio chemical disaster

OP of the post I reblogged earlier regarding this turned off reblogs (understandable have a nice day) but I got a request to put the information in its own post, so here.

First thing: PLEASE be careful about claims that "The Media" is suppressing something as part of a malicious agenda, or that an event has been purposefully manufactured by "The Media" to distract from something else.

Not only is this a really common disinformation tactic (not only urging you to share/reblog quickly, but discouraging you from fact checking), treating "The Media" as a monolithic entity with purposeful agency and a specific, malicious agenda—particularly one that manufactures events to "distract" from other events—is a red flag for conspiracy theories.

There's already a post in the tag attributing the supposed lack of media coverage to "reptilians." Please connect the dots here.

Second—"the news isn't focusing on this as much as I think they should" is not a media blackout. Every major USA news source is reporting on the Ohio train derailment. Googling returns at least 4 pages of results from major news media sources. Even just googling "Ohio" gets you plenty of results about it.

This is an unusual amount of media attention for a U.S. environmental disaster.

Because this kind of thing happens all the damn time.

The "media blackout" narrative gives the impression that this is an unusual event that isn't receiving wall to wall coverage only because it's being suppressed—when the reality is that similar disasters happen a lot, and hardly ever get the attention the Ohio disaster is getting.

Consider this example, not too far from my local area: A few years ago, almost 2,000 tons of radioactive fracking waste were illegally dumped in an Eastern Kentucky municipal landfill, directly across from a middle school. Leachate from that landfill goes into the Kentucky River, which is where most of the central part of the state gets its drinking water. As far as we know, the radioactive waste isn't leaking yet, but it could start leaking at any time.

Zero national news sources covered this. Why? If I was to hazard a guess, I would say "because it's business as usual for the fossil fuel industry."

Consider also the case of Martin County, KY, which has had foul-smelling, contaminated drinking water for decades. Former coal country in Appalachia is poisoned and toxic, and laws have little power to punish the companies that created the destruction.

What happened in Ohio is just a little window into a whole world of horrors.

The Martin County coal slurry spill that is still poisoning the water 20 years later killed literally everything in the water for miles downstream (a book Mom read said 70 miles of the Ohio river were made completely lifeless). It was 30 times larger than the Exxon-Valdez oil spill, and it was in some sense "covered up"—in the sense that the Bush administration shut down the investigation because the Republicans are buddies with the fossil fuel industry, and proceeded to relax regulations even further.

Seriously, read that wiki article to get pissed enough to eat glass.

Hopefully the Ohio chemical spill will inspire real action to institute regulations to prevent shit like this from ever happening again. It's not the end of the world. It's not radically different from what industries have been causing the whole damn time. It is pretty bad.

I would urge everyone to actually search up information about it instead of getting news from Tiktok or Twitter, because the more false information gets distributed, the less momentum any effort to respond with improved regulations and changes to prevent future disasters will have. Plenty of facts here *are* public and being publicly discussed and pretending that they're not is actively detrimental.

[kingdrawcse]

After Train Derailment...

Source: USATODAY

To prevent derailed trains from exploding, the emergency response team has released five cans of Vinyl chloride. The combustion of vinyl chloride will release hydrogen chloride (irritating, corrosive, easily soluble in water), phosgene (used as a chemical weapon, can cause emphysema), TCDD (with strong biological toxicity, difficult to eliminate natural degradation), and other harmful substances.

 In the weeks that followed, local residents took to social media to share stories of contaminated waterways and dead animals. More than 43,000 animals have died within 8 km of the Ohio waterway, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources estimates. 

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

Photo from the air of the East Palestine, Ohio chemical fire after the train derailed

[reality-detective]

Palestine, Ohio👇

The victims living in the fallout of the Ohio train disaster have been abandoned and left completely on their own.

Candice De La Rosa is here to detail how government officials claim the water is safe to drink but most residents do not believe it.

Toxic well water and cancer rates could skyrocket in the wake of the Ohio train disaster!

Sil Caggiano is here to tell the truth about what really happened in East Palestine, Ohio.

The short term effects from chemical exposure are difficulty breathing, rashes, and burning eyes.

[emperornorton47]

Photo of the cloud over East Palestine, Ohio. Taken by an airline passenger.

[jessica-marie-baumgartner]

If you're a true environmentalist

You will demand answers for the Ohio train derailment toxic chemical burn AND the toxic Tuscon crash.

These incidents are just as bad as oil spills, despite how our "leaders" ignore them. They maybe actually be worse in the long run.