Credit where credit is due. Fox News Jesse Waters has been holding the spotlight on the government and railroad officials who have been downplaying the issues after the toxic chemical spill and explosions in the town of East Palestine, Ohio. {Direct Rumble Link}
The residents of the community are reporting several ongoing health issues and a community townhall was scheduled today. However, executives with Norfolk Southern Railroad cancelled their attendance, leaving the citizens of the community frustrated. Additionally, the railway contracted air and water testing with a company well known for minimizing the effects of environmental disasters to satisfy its corporate employers {Go Deep}.
Residents are being asked to sign liability waivers indemnifying the railroad, prior to the private testing of air and water quality. This just seems very sketchy, all things considered and raises additional questions from the residents. The federal EPA is not providing any assurances or answers. Jesse Waters outlines some of the issues tonight during an interview with Ohio Congressman Bill Johnson. WATCH:
The opening monologue from both Jesse Waters and Tucker Carlson stayed on this issue tonight. Given the nature of the effort to downplay the concern of the residents from both federal and state officials, it is good to see Carlson and Waters keeping the attention on this impacted community.
Someone on the Twitter brought up a good point… It would be nice to see Ohio congressman Jim Jordan get involved to support Bill Johnson in this district. Jim Jordan has a lot of power in Washington DC. Perhaps together they could pressure FEMA to engage.
I keep asking myself what the point is of having local, state, and federal “representatives” if not for just something like this. If they truly represented We the People, every single state and federal Ohio Representative and Senator would have been on this like wet on water! Every Ohio city mayor and County Commissioner (or whatever their counties have) would stand with the people of this town and support them with more than just words or in many cases-just silence!
What–they all can’t take even one day off from politicking and meeting with lobbyists to stand together for these fellow Ohio Citizens???? Think long and hard on what it really means that they won’t all get together and do something besides posturing in front of a camera occasionally. The possible political means and power is more than ‘there’ and enough to get these people the immediate and long term help that they need–but the lack of desire and will to do so is entirely absent. They represent and serve only themselves.
PS – I’d take a “service economy”, if service meant that our public officials were there to actually serve We The People instead of the opposite way around that they practice!
Shows the EPA is now useless. All focused on Climate Warming. Ignores real Climate Disaster.
More than useless. It has mutated into some frankenstonian monster devoid from its original charter.
The entire original purpose of the EPA was through the Clean AIR and Clean WATER Acts under Nixon.
Precisely the two things this disaster has polluted: an air and water catastrophe.
They have been useless for years, except for the companies who buy them off.
Here is my take as a Buckeye.
After the drubbing dewhine took after his “management” of “covid” and his subsequent handcuffing by the Ohio legislature he saw this as a way to be seen large and in charge. So he green lighted the railroads desire to get the track back open by burning up the problem.
However he likely had no idea the holocaust he was creating and now has got a real problem. IF dewhine ok’d the “controlled” burn but had no legal right to do so perhaps (slim chance) will finally be rid of him.
Yeah Mycroft-good insight. It’s the first time I’d heard him speak-reminded me if Mr. Peebles.
The “light it on fire” idea was so horrifically bad that it makes me wonder WTF kind of government experts we actually employ to give such advice and then how this Governor needs to get rid of every aide and science adviser who agreed he should allow this.
People in govt, both elected and appointed, seem to always fly by the seat of their pants. No one knows really what they’re doing. Their main consideration in decision making is getting re elected. They all should be thrown out and relegated to working in call centers or door to door vacuum sales.
The same ones that were in charge of the gold mine disaster in CO
As the governor, DeWine has the authority to decide emergency management actions. He will receive recommendations from the on-scene incident commander (probably the Fire Chief of the area), chemical experts (e.g., from government, private industry, etc.), interested parties (e.g., the RR, other state agencies, county and municipal offices, etc.) and other specialty staff who are in the State Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and make decisions through his emergency management command apparatus and the EOC. The buck stopped at his desk — any decision to burn, no matter how he tries to sluff it off onto someone else, was his– the incident commander on-scene is not going to make that decision by himself. Check out the National Incident Management System for more details.
IF dewhine ok’d the “controlled” burn but had no legal right to do so
Have any of you realized that the alternative to burning off the vinyl chloride was a devastating explosion that would likely gave done much property damage and even cost lives? And that deWine himself did not make the decision?
The fanatical disregard for reality on this and other boards is matched only by the fanaticism of the Left.
You replied to my comment so please show me where I said burning it wasn’t the correct solution?
Your comment has multiple errors.
Reading comprehension is important. If you are going to chastise you need to be correct.
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Nobody wants to take responsibility for this mess, and the residents will be paying the consequences for years.
The residents of East Palestine need to have all their relocation expenses paid by Norfolk Southern as well as any derailment related medical bills.
Using a “controlled burn” to dispose of the toxic chemicals was a stupid and harmful decision.
I hate how the Norfolk Southern and government officials are refusing to take responsibility for the situation. This is especially repugnant of the government officials as they work for the citizens and not corporations like Norfolk Southern.
It’s sadly rare for government and corporate officials to take responsibility for major disasters.
The only example that I can think of where a prominent official took responsibility for a major disaster was when Los Angeles Bureau of Water Works and Supply chief engineer William Mulholland took full responsibility for the collapse of the St. Francis Dam in 1928 which killed at least 431 people.
Mulholland said, “Whether it is good or bad, don’t blame anyone else, you just fasten it on me. If there was an error in human judgment, I was the human, I won’t try to fasten it on anyone else.”
The government and Norfolk Southern officials responsible for addressing this derailment need to take a lesson from Mulholland by taking responsibility and working to correct the situation.
None of this adds up. Vinyl chloride boils at 7.9 °F. It certainly was warmer that day.
I have no experience with this chemical but I do know refrigerants.
You can’t simply pour this stuff into a ditch!
As a liquefied gas It’s going to boil like crazy (evaporate) and become a highly explosive gas at the right air fuel mixtures. If heavier than air it would be a smothering agent.
I’m sure I read shaped charges were used to blow hole in the pressure vessels to release it to atmosphere.
I cannot find it so unless I was imaging things probably been scrubbed.
Sign a waiver before testing?
OH HELL NO!
“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There were fires. There were no explosions.
Ohio has a perfectly competent EPA. I for one wouldn’t WANT the incompetent and politicized Fed on the scene at this point, although I do appreciate that the federal EPA is doing the air quality sampling downstream in Pennsylvania where Ohio’s people have no authority.
Ditto FEMA. This isn’t a statewide disaster like a major hurricane. Keep the Hell out of the way and let Ohio’s people work.
Personally I applaud the N-S decision not to participate in a media circus of a “town meeting”. This kind of political crap does nothing but hinder the engineers who are tasked with cleaning up this mess.
BTW I live here – in Bill Johnson’s district, about 50 miles from ground zero. And I’m a retired engineer. Not trying to pontificate from Florida or some other point 1000 miles away.