Colleen
What's going on at these plants?
This makes 3 this year alone.
UNION MILLS, Ind. (AP) — An explosion at a fertilizer plant in northwest Indiana has killed one person.
The LaPorte County Sheriff's Department confirmed that one person was killed in an explosion in Union Mills.
Sheriff's Deputy Neil Lachmund says all other people are accounted for after the explosion Monday afternoon at the Union Mills Co-op. It's about 50 miles southeast of Chicago. Lachmund says two other people are being checked for injuries.
The blast follows one less than two weeks ago at a chemical plant in Louisiana that makes fertilizer. That blast killed one worker and injured seven others.
An April 17 fertilizer plant blast in West, Texas, killed 15 people. (and demolished an entire town).
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/24/ind-plant-explosion/2453463/
2 Answers
Vinny
Did you ever notice how the media works?? If you hear of a plane crash, you'll hear of another one until something better comes along, gas mains blow up, all of a sudden there's gas mains blowing up everywhere. Someone found a finger in their french fries, all of a sudden you hear of all kinds of stuff in french fries. The media is like a bunch of ants, drop a morsel, they all come, when that morsel is gone, they follow each other to another source.
Right now, there's a frenzy of shootings. people are buying shootings, it makes the ratings go up. At one time we only heard of a few shootings, and they had to have special circumstances to make it to primetime news, now they report on ALL shootings, we have 5 to 6 per night in the Oakland/San Francisco area.. yet, they claim violence is down. Which tells me that there's always been 5 or 6 per night, we never heard about them because at the time, it wasn't big news. It's now about guns. also, speaking of guns, did you notice all the attention to the AR-15?? Even if it was a murder w/ a pistol, they call it an AR-15-- I hate the media! as for fertilizer plants, I wouldn't be surprised this too is a feeding frenzy for the media, its big news because bombs can be made from fertilizer. People want to hear about this! I remember years ago the frenzy was fireworks factories, they were blowing up all over the place-- We still have fireworks factories here in the USA (believe it or not) But they don't blow up anymore. (?) I think they do but its not of importance anymore.
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There was another one before that on the south border of my town about 5 yrs. ago. It resulted in white fall-out on many citizens trees, bushes, plants,flowers.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-san-bruno-fire10sept.html,0,4354508.htmlstory
Sad thing is, for moths after this and even now, there's all kinds of media coverage on gas mains leaking - Attention to mainline pipes are under scrutiny. Still to this day, people are filing claims against the power company. PG&E (insurance) basically needs to rebuild the entire neighborhood-- Up goes our utility bills. It's still a mess there.
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