Louise Boyle – The Independent Feb 13, 2023
A drone photo of the continuing cleanup of the train derailment site
The ecological fallout from the derailment of a freight train carrying toxic materials in rural Ohio is still being determined ten days after the disaster.
Around 50 train cars derailed on 3rd February in the small town of East Palestine including about 20 cars carrying hazardous substances.
No one was killed after a broken axle sent the Norfolk Southern train careening off the tracks, investigators said. More than 2,000 residents were evacuated due to health concerns over the chemical leak but have since been allowed to return.
Some of the crashed cars were carrying toxic chemicals – vinyl chloride, butyl acrylate, ethylhexyl acrylate, and ethylene glycol monobutyl ether – which were released into the air, surface soils, and surface waters.
Five rail car tankers of vinyl chloride were intentionally breached by crews, and the substance diverted to an excavated trench. A controlled detonation was then carried out to prevent an explosion, sending noxious black clouds billowing across the area. One of the substances released was phosgene, a gas deployed as a chemical weapon in the First World War.
Environmental remediation work was ongoing, Norfolk Southern reported last week, along with air, soil, and water monitoring in coordination with state and federal agencies. Regulators have said that so far the air quality remains safe and drinking water supplies have not been affected in surrounding communities.
But in the ten days since the disaster, a number of troubling reports have emerged. Some residents have spoken of headaches and feeling sick, the Associated Press reported.
East Palestine resident Melissa Henry told AP how she had taken her two sons to her parents’ house outside of the evacuation zone after her youngest boy’s “eyes turned red as tomato and he was coughing a lot”.
She said that since returning to her home, she had been doing laundry, cleaning and changing filters in the furnace.
“I don’t know if that’s going to work, but we have to do something,” she said.
Vinyl chloride, which is used to make plastic pipes, wires and packaging, is associated with an increased risk of a rare form of liver cancer, hepatic angiosarcoma, along with primary liver cancer, brain and lung cancers, lymphoma, and leukemia, Cancer.gov reports.
One resident in the town of North Lima, around ten miles from the train derailment, reported that her six chickens died in the days after the fire.
“My video camera footage shows my chickens were perfectly fine before they started this burn, and as soon as they started the burn, my chickens slowed down and they died,” Amanda Breshears told local TV station WKBN27.
It was not the only report of sick animals. Taylor Holzer, a registered foxkeeper who lives outside the evacuation perimeter, told WKBN that all of his foxes were sick and one had died. Dead fish were also observed floating in local streams.
A legal notice sent to the train operator by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contained further details of contamination.
Hazardous materials were found in samples taken from a number of waterways in the area – Sulphur Run, Leslie Run, Bull Creek, North Fork Little Beaver Creek, Little Beaver Creek, and the Ohio River.
Materials related to the incident were also observed entering storm drains, EPA noted. The agency also highlighted that areas of contaminated soil and free liquids were observed and potentially covered and/or filled during reconstruction of the rail line.
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich criticized the EPA and state lawmakers for telling people it was safe to return to their homes and at the same time, sending a legal notice to the rail operator over the threat of environmental contamination.
“This is why people don’t trust government,” she tweeted on Monday.
“You cannot tell people that there has been and continues to be hazardous pollutants contaminating the environment while at the same time saying ‘all is well.’”
This is why people don't trust government.
You cannot tell people that there has been and continues to be hazardous pollutants contaminating the environment while at the same time saying "all is well."People aren't stupid. @GovMikeDeWine @EPA https://t.co/eSfa9JPKzH
— Erin Brockovich (@ErinBrockovich) February 13, 2023
A water company in the neighboring state of West Virginia said on Sunday that it would be taking precautionary measures over its water supply.
West Virginia American Water said that there has been no change in its intake from the Ohio River but the utility would set up a secondary source on the tributary, Guyandotte River.
A lawsuit was filed last week against Norfolk Southern, seeking unspecified damages and to demand that the rail company pay for medical screenings and related care for residents within a 30-mile radius of the train explosion.
The derailment has also raised questions about the frequent use of rail transportation to move vast quantities of toxic and dangerous substances in close proximity to communities.
Rail unions believe the industry has gotten riskier in recent years after widespread job cuts left workers spread thin, the AP reported. Hazardous materials account for about 7-8 per cent of the 30 million shipments that railroads deliver across the country every year.
“It raises all kinds of questions,” Ohio Governor Mike DeWine told Fox & Friends when he was asked whether hazardous materials are too dangerous to transport by rail.
“We’ve seen it up close and personal the last few days,” Gov. DeWine said. “This is a big, big deal.”
On 6th July 2013, a 73-car freight train derailed in the center of the town of Lac-Mégantic in Quebec, Canada, resulting in a huge explosion. Some 47 people were killed and roughly half the town was burned down.
In February 2020, a landslide in Kentucky caused the derailment of a freight train carrying ethanol which led to a fire and chemical leak into a river. A 2005 derailment in Graniteville, South Carolina, left nine people dead and injured more than 250 after toxic chlorine gases were released.
TikTok reportedly taken on a creek that runs from East Palestine, Ohio. Notice that it’s full of dead fish. This combined with reports of chicken and livestock die off and reporters being arrested in the area is painting a startlingly more dire picture than is being reported. pic.twitter.com/Z2a8QR2AxK
— James Ray ☭ (@GoodVibePolitik) February 10, 2023
I have tweeted the Train Derailment in Palestine Ohio, This Young lady says it’s much worse than we can imagine, it’s in the water, schools of fish floating dead, the place is inhabitable. Says Red Cross etc no show. pic.twitter.com/d5DN9Sx2VD
— Johnny Midnight ⚡️ (@its_the_Dr) February 13, 2023
Mistake for the residents to have named their town East Palestine.
Not too late to rename it East Zion to qualify for massive reparations.
I’ll tell you why they actually blew up that train. It’s about manipulating your perception. Soon there will be toxic air in various parts of the world. They want you to think that this is an attack by the government, but the truth will be different. To understand current events, you must first learn the history. The world’s biggest secret is that there have been tremendous global disasters in the past that decimated populations and caused the collapse of empires. Chronicles from the 14th and 6th centuries describe events as if from a disaster movie. They write of “an extraordinary earthquake over the whole world”, “poisonous earthy exhalation”, “fire falling from the sky for 16 days”, “falling stars” (meteorites), “the sun became dark for 18 months”, “hailstones of incredible size”, “lightnings that killed thousands of men and animals”, droughts and torrential rains destroying crops and causing famines so great that people resorted to cannibalism, and “a pestilence which spread over almost the entire world” and “swept away third part of the human race”. And all this was happening within just a few years. These global disasters were caused by the impact of the Sun’s magnetic field, which suddenly increases once every several hundred years. When this happens, the Earth is struck by violent cataclysms. Unfortunately, the next such catastrophe will occur in 2023-2025. Massive earthquakes will destroy entire countries. Asteroids will fall to the Earth. Powerful geomagnetic storms will cause long-term power outages. Sudden climate change all over the world will lead to widespread famine. Governments are afraid of a public panic and an uprising. They are going to instigate a world war to keep themselves in power through terror. They will allow a deadly pandemic to spread that will kill a few billion people. The media, both mainstream and alternative, will say that this is a man-made crisis. They will say that the disease is caused by radiation or a virus from a bio lab. They want you not to find out what the disease is and how to cure it. Earthquakes and climate change will be explained by HAARP. They will say the asteroids are nuclear bombs, and the power outage is due to a cyber attack or EMP. Do not believe it. Similar disasters have happened in the past. This is not just another conspiracy theory, but a cycle of global disasters confirmed by chroniclers’ records. You find this hard to believe because you have been fooled by historians all your life and the media has programmed you to disregard such warnings. Please do not judge this hastily, but examine the evidence yourself. All information can be found at reset676.com
The place is inhabitable? We used to put “un-” in front of that, but this is the land of the Free, so you can do what you want
Regulators have said that so far the air quality remains ‘safe and protective’.
look up the new normal dictionary, poisoning.
Polish Rail helping to build a HighSpeed link with Is. Rail
(German company got the contract)
Rather than take measures to contain the damage, that would cost $$$,, ‘experts’ and ‘authorities’ decided to BLOW UP the contents of those vinyl chloride containing tank cars in a ‘controlled’ burn……….so how’d that work out?
It’s interesting that this “accident” occurred in a place called “East Palestine”.
Guess what country is on the Eastern side of Historic Palestine: Apartheid Israhell.
God keeps warning us about that evil state and no one is listening.
http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/is-america-cursed/
How about all the cities and people living northwest of this toxic spewing of poisonous gasses? During and everyday since there have been 10-20-30 mph winds blowing from the southwest 24-7 and still are.
Youngstown, New Castle, Warren, Grove City, Franklin, Titusville, Meadville, Edinboro, Erie, Buffalo are all in the path of these toxic winds for weeks now.
Any heads-up by the M$M or EPA? Anyone? Anyone there?
This Palestine attack comes on the heels of those hundreds of food processing facilities destroyed, Do you detect a pattern yet? Zionists are destroying Amerika infrastruacture and Biden is shipping your defenses to Ukraine.
Ohio is the home state of the Kent State shootings. In Ohio, they shoot kids who protest war. I grew up listening to CSNY “Four dead in Ohio”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59XtV0ezQ30
I was raised in Ohio, before I marched off to OSU my German father gave me some advice, he said so, I am not going to tell you what to do at college, but if stand in front of some national gaurdsman with a rifle and get shot, don’t come crying home to me.
I look back on that and laugh, and I took his advice and never voted and never went to a political rally, and now I avoid all mass gatherings. I don’t want to become victim to someone making a political statement when Amerikans gather. You might want to weigh that advice for yourself.
All that karma for all those wars Amerika caused and wasted it’s youth, is coming home to roost. Amerika is going down hard.
I advise to step aside and let it fall, do not become a victim to her madness. Amerika is Babylon, a degenerate multicultural mudbrid shithole, there is no saving her, and no reason too, the people are insane, the politicians lunatics, the money worthless Jewish script.
Think people think, Amerika is now Communist, but we fought in Vietnam to stop Communism. How did that happen? War is a ruse, like Mike Sledge said in his last radio show, when Capitalism matures it becomes Communist.
Let’s not be too hasty regarding this derailment, Occam’s razor is pretty much all you need, don’t dare suggest it’s (((sudden infrastructure destruction syndrome))) or that it was deliberate. The simplest explanation is that it’s just an accident, don’t attribute to malice that which incompetence faithfully delivers. It could have happened anywhere, it’s just coincidence the location was named Palestine. Like the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia crash in Palestine Texas that killed Israeli fighter pilot turned astronaut Ilan Ramon. How dare anyone suggest such a thing never happened, they found his wallet! And it came from space!
So there. Palestine Texas. And stop using triple parentheses! Are you one of those anti-Semites who looks at all these calamities, wars, financial swindles, vaccine mishaps, rigged elections and is so lazy that you just type (((pretty much everything))) and then you think you’re some kind of internet wit? Oh Puhleeeze, get a life.
Another thing, don’t go on about Jewish investors owning NSCOR, Norfolk Southern or that the CEO looks like this and don’t bother looking into who owns American Water Works. It’s a public water supply utility and someone has to own it, who cares if board of directors look like the attendees of a bar mitzvah! Get over it! Stop blaming the you-know-who! You probably see little green Jews in you corn flakes and outside your bedroom window at night. And you probably work for Mossad. What did you expect Sam-Bankman Freid to look like? Brad Pitt or something like that?
lobro on February 14, 2023 at 8:01 am
Mistake for the residents to have named their town East Palestine.
Not too late to rename it East Zion to qualify for massive reparations.
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I agree…
The name East PALESTINE stood out asap…
lobro right out of the gate with the comment of the day above!
Sweet weeping Jesus, tanker cars full of vinyl chloride, butyl acrylate, ethylhexyl acrylate, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, and phosgene spewing uncontrollably?!? That place, and a 50 mile radius around it, is toast.
“East Palestine village idiot Melissa Henry told AP how she had taken her two sons to her parents’ house outside of the evacuation zone after her youngest boy’s ‘eyes turned red as tomato and he was coughing a lot’…She said that since returning to her home, she had been doing laundry, cleaning and changing filters in the furnace….’I don’t know if that’s going to work, but we have to do something,’ she said.”
Lady, you can do laundry and change filters until the cows come home…oh wait, the cows aren’t coming home, because they are now dead…but all your “cleaning” isn’t going to do a dam thing as you are already well on your way to being chock-a-block full of cancers and a grim death. Anyone who is staying within 300 miles of that toxic shit-hole is out of their mind.
@BOB SMITH
i accuse the devil (his henchmen little evil
telepatical ETs leading Rothschild, Rockefeller,
Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, A Bourla + rest mafia)
disturbing the brains of all power people adicted
to power . this world is not the realm of ONENESS .
devils empire is of division, greed, lust for more,
perversion +war . only this three Palestine are
maybe his signes like evil freemason kabala .
Oh, no, it might blow up! So lets blow it up to prevent that.
“Trans”portation Secretary Pete “Grinder” Buttegg says, nothing to see here. But look, here is the death cloud from an airplane:
https://imgur.com/a/LK4lEmB#5DtREvR
https://imgur.com/a/wFbLCGG#JrUi5zG
Looks apocalyptic to me, it may be a harbinger when Russia nukes the shit out of Amerika.
Going to be a lot more than “4 dead in Ohio” soon.
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In related news:
List of countries that pulled their ambassadors out of Turkey 24 hours before the earthquake.
✓Canada
✓USA
✓Britain
✓Germany
✓Belgium
✓Italy
✓Holland
✓France
Nothing suspicious here, not like they have a earthquake machine or anything to punish Turkey for not supporting NATO.
Have you noticed every country near Israel is turning to shit?
lobro is quite correct that the location site and naming of this “accident” is significant.
Following the rules of the Imperial Black Magic of the Zionistic Elders this presages…
Exactly what they are about to do to the Greater East Palestine to build Greater ISRAHELL!
Prepare for Genocide of Whites and Palestinians on a scale only a filthy K*Ke can imagine.
Poison Gas, chemical weaponry, food shortages, starvation, fire and warfare coming soon.
And incompetent “diversity” hire Pete BUTTigeig from SOUTH BEND is too busy sodomizing his gay husband and adopted kids to do anything about this horror. Instead of fixing this he was giving a speech complaining that most construction workers in America are white (oh the horror!!). Democrats have ruined america. FJB