Chernobyl, Ohio

[sailfish]

In case anyone was distracted by UFOs and other dumb , we got a pretty egregious and underestimated situation going on in Ohio.

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[sailfish]

My own watershed lies within the Ohio River Basin so I'll be keeping an eye on this.

 

[sailfish]

Norfolk Southern so I don't know what else you'd expect from a company made up entirely of quota hires. Hope they get sued into the stone age.

 

[sailfish]

Rail Companies Blocked Safety Rules Before Ohio Derailment

Norfolk Southern helped convince government officials to repeal brake rules — and corporate lobbyists watered down hazmat safety regs.

www.levernews.com

 

[sailfish]

First hand accounts sound pretty bad.

 

[Operational needs]

I read that animals in the area are dying.

 

[Thebrownblob]

Interesting the story is almost completely ignored

 

[Operational needs]

Tucker Carlson was talking about it tonight. It should be front page news on all the papers.

 

[newolddude]

Interesting the story is almost completely ignored

Deep in flyover country. Same part of the country that got ignored when the opioid crisis was allowed to run rampant.

Don't construe this as an excuse. This is sad. Regular people shouldn't suffer like this.

 

[rickyb]

i was reading an article apparently the railways voluntarily report near misses or minor accidents or something like that lol.

you can just look at equipment design, which ive gone on about in the anti capitalism thread, and see that it is not safe for workers. i should know ive worked on the railway.

these corporate forces will poison us all to extract the very last dollar.

there used to be 50 railway companies. now theres 7. this is not competitive.

 

[rickyb]

Tucker Carlson was talking about it tonight. It should be front page news on all the papers.

fake news

 

[newolddude]

Rail Companies Blocked Safety Rules Before Ohio Derailment

Norfolk Southern helped convince government officials to repeal brake rules — and corporate lobbyists watered down hazmat safety regs.

www.levernews.com

The important part:

The sequence of events began a decade ago in the wake of a major uptick in derailments of trains carrying crude oil and hazardous chemicals, including a New Jersey train crash that leaked the same toxic chemical as in Ohio.

In response, the Obama administration in 2014 proposed improving safety regulations for trains carrying petroleum and other hazardous materials. However, after industry pressure, the final measure ended up narrowly focused on the transport of crude oil and exempting trains carrying many other combustible materials, including the chemical involved in this weekend’s disaster.

Then came 2017: After rail industry donors delivered more than $6 million to GOP campaigns, the Trump administration — backed by rail lobbyists and Senate Republicans — rescinded part of that rule aimed at making better braking systems widespread on the nation’s rails.

But please tell me more how Democrats want to destroy the country and Republicans only have the best interest of the people

 

[rickyb]

In case anyone was distracted by UFOs and other dumb , we got a pretty egregious and underestimated situation going on in Ohio.

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the fines are baked into the business model

just a cost of doing business.

 

[rickyb]

The important part:


But please tell me more how Democrats want to destroy the country and Republicans only have the best interest of the people

obama was so corrupt

 

[newolddude]

obama was so corrupt

Because he wanted to make trains safer?

 

[rickyb]

Because he wanted to make trains safer?

democrat party so corrupt

they sold out working class sometime around reagan / clinton era. selling out the workers for decades now. republicans are even worse.

 

[Box Ox]

obama was so corrupt

Because he wanted to make trains safer?

Because he's to the right of Mao.

 

[rickyb]

Because he's to the right of Mao.

obama raised more bribes than mccain, first time a democrat has taken more than the republican........


in case you didnt know

 

[vantexan]

The important part:


But please tell me more how Democrats want to destroy the country and Republicans only have the best interest of the people

OK, Democrats want to destroy the country and Republicans only have the best interest of the people.

 

[vantexan]

obama raised more bribes than mccain, first time a democrat has taken more than the republican........


in case you didnt know

Really?