UPDATE ADDED: 2/24/23
We are still unraveling the mess that is the Norfolk Southern Rail Disaster. Sadly, we will not know the full impact for years, even decades to come. What is obvious here is that this is just the pinpoint of a much greater underlying problem.
We owe it to the victims of this event, and to ourselves to keep this issue in the public eye until something HUGE springs out of it that brings about a real change in our system.
Continue to pray for all those not only in the immediate area but everyone who will feel the impact of this event anywhere the poisons travel through the air and water. Keep lifting up our first responders and the clean up crews who willing put themselves in danger to protect us, God Bless and protect them.
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The Rail system is only part of the infrastructure of our nation that is crumbling from neglect. One of the other very important and dangerous parts of our infrastructure that holds imminent danger to lives and property is our system of Dams. If you have not seen my posts on that topic, check them out below:
Its a DAM Shame – Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5
It’s a DAM Shame 2
It’s A DAM SHAME! Prado DAM MURAL
All the posts in this series:
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OHIOANS in Danger – LIES! LIES! LIES is all they get.
UPDATES ON OHIO DERAILMENT
Ohio Train Disaster – More Information
MORE BAD NEWS ON OHIO TRAIN DERAIL
OHIO NORFOLK RAIL DISASTER snarly, tangled complexity
EAST PALESTINE A VSL EXPERIMENT
DAM SURE NOT SAFE NOW!!
THIS IS A MAJOR ATTACK ON OUR FOOD SUPPLY
OHIO CHEMICAL DISASTER THAT WILL NOT STOP
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UPDATE ADDED: 2/24/23
The NTSB report came out today and “SURPRISE” it did not say anything that has not already been said. MORE BS. They have nothing new to add so I am not even going to post the video.
In the following video you will hear a reporter sharing how the Trump visit went down. She states that the media did not even know he was coming, and when they did discover that fact they had a very hard time trying to find out where he was going to be. SO, Trump was not grandstanding or campaigning. As this reporter states, he was there for the people, showing that he genuinely cared about what was happening to them. If anyone is making this a political event it is the Democrats constantly trying to point the finger at Trump. Listen to what she has to say about what she saw and experienced in East Palestine.
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NORFOLK SOUTHER is the worst offender as far as railroads go. THEY NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. There should be no mercy shown. They have been profiting for a very long time by cutting corners, disregarding safety standards, failing to maintain their equipment properly, covering up the dangers connected with their “accidents”, denying compensation to those affected, overworking and underpaying their employees, and forcing workers to work when they are sick or lose their jobs. This in a time of a “pandemic”.
We need to hold their feet to the fire and force them to clean up their mess, compensate the people, and CHANGE their business practices. Make them an example of what will happen to any railroad that continues to practice as they have until now.
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The people of Palestine OHIO are not going to let this slide. We need to support them in any way we can. It is looking more and more like this was a deliberate act perpetrated on this very strategic part of the country. Let’s get to the bottom of this and uncover the full extent of the corruption and deceit. Support the folks who are laboring out in the field to bring you the REAL NEWS from Palestine.
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‘They Did It To Open Up A Railroad’: Former Ohio Fire Chief Rips Controlled Burn Of Toxic Chemicals
(Alexa Schwerha/Daily Caller News Foundation)
- East Palestine, Ohio, residents attended a community information meeting held by a local non-profit on Thursday to ask panelists questions after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed earlier this month.
- Silverio Caggiano, a former Ohio fire chief, alleged that the controlled burn that released hazardous toxins into the air was only conducted to “open up a railroad.”
- “But what they did was they took a potential and made it a for sure,” he told residents during the meeting.
A former fire chief alleged on Thursday that the controlled burn that released toxic chemicals into the air and water in an eastern Ohio town after a train derailed may not have been necessary, the Daily Caller News Foundation observed.
A Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed on Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio, and a controlled burn was performed days later to prevent an explosion, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. Silverio Caggiano, administrative deputy chief at Mahoning County Hazardous Materials & WMD Response Team and former fire chief, told residents during a community meeting organized by local non-profit River Valley Organizing that he is not aware of any “incident where they have detonated all the cars in a trench and burned them off” in any case study he has done. (RELATED: Erin Brockovich Warns It Could Take ‘Decades’ For Ohio Town To Recover After Toxic Train Derailment)
“They did it to open up a railroad,” Caggiano told residents.
“The cooling off could have done it, the temperature gradients could have fell off, you don’t know,” he later said. “If you just let it boil off, you don’t know. But what they did was they took a potential and made it a for sure.”
He then called the controlled burn the “laboratory experiment from hell.”
Thursday’s meeting drew a large crowd as residents piled into overflow spaces to hear from panelists including PhD researchers, lawyers and community organizers, according to the event page. Residents brought up concerns about how the released chemicals could impact their health, how safe they are in their homes and work places and whether government officials made the correct decisions when responding to the derailment.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tested more than 550 homes as of Feb. 21 and detected “no exceedances for residential air quality standards,” according to its website.
Stephen Lester, science director at Center for Health, Environment, and Justice, said during the meeting that the EPA is not testing for dioxins, which are groups of chemical compounds, according to the EPA. He said that dioxins can cause symptoms including skin reactions and could remain present in the area for years.
“The EPA has made one major mistake in their testing process thus far, it was ignoring dioxin, almost pretending like it didn’t exist,” he said during the meeting.
One resident said during the meeting that he could smell an odor when he tossed a rock into the creek.
Panelists encouraged residents to have their soil and water tested and to receive a baseline physical to document their health levels. Jami Wallace, community organizer, said at the start of the meeting that she demanded a toxicologist test her home and the report found it unsafe after she was told she was able to return after the derailment.
The Ohio Emergency Management Agency maintains that there is “no butyl acrylate or vinyl chloride” in the Ohio River, according to its website. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources announced Thursday that more than 43,000 aquatic animals were killed after the derailment.
The municipal water shows “no water quality concerns,” according to the EPA, and several government officials including EPA Administrator Michael Regan and Republican Gov. Mike DeWine drank the tap water on video.
“We’re at war. We’re at war with corporate greed, with the politicians that have this money lining their pocket. We’re here for one issue and that’s to make our town safe and to make sure that none of this happens again in our town or any other town,” Wallace said. “We deserve answers.”
Norfolk Southern and the EPA did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
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Independent journalist Louis DeAngelis is LIVE in East Palestine Ohio speaking with residents whose backyard is right in front of the site of the Norfolk Southern train derailment, explosion, and chemical burn. SUPPORT Status Coup’s ON-THE-GROUND and investigative reporting on the stories the corporate media COVERS UP: https://www.StatusCoup.com/Join
East Palestine toxicology test relies on controversial consulting firm accused of serving corporate interest rather than public health
The company hired by Norfolk Southern has already persuaded 340 residents to sign agreements that reportedly waive their legal rights in the aftermath of Ohio’s train crash.
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The Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health (CTEH), a private contractor hired by Norfolk Southern to test water, soil, and air quality in East Palestine, Ohio, has a history of minimizing the effects of environmental disasters to satisfy its corporate employers, according to critics.
While the Arkansas-based firm provides consulting services to various industries, it is known for performing toxicology monitoring for the oil and gas industry following health and safety incidents.
After a million gallons of oil spilled on a Louisiana town in 2005, after a flood of toxic coal ash smothered central Tennessee in 2008, and after defective Chinese drywall began plaguing Florida homeowners, CTEH was on the scene — saying everything was fine.
In each of these cases, the toxicology firm was alleged to be supplying the data its employers wanted while falsely assuring the public that they were safe from harm.
The company’s work for BP in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, for example, drew accusations of the “fox guarding the chicken coop” from the New York Times and “conflicts of interest” from Democrats in Congress.
As BP continues to claim that the leaking oil has caused “no significant exposures,” despite the hospitalization of several workers and the sparse release of test data, these observers of CTEH’s work say the firm has a vested interest in finding a clean bill of health to satisfy its corporate employer.
“It’s essentially the fox guarding the chicken coop,” said Nicholas Cheremisinoff, a former Exxon chemical engineer who now consults on pollution prevention. “There is a huge incentive for them to under-report” the size of the spill, Cheremisinoff added, and “the same thing applies on the health and safety side.”
Another toxicologist familiar with CTEH, who requested anonymity to avoid retribution from the firm, described its chemical studies as designed to meet the goals of its clients. “They’re paid to say everything’s OK,” this source said. “Their work product is, basically, they find the least protective rules and regulations and rely on those.”
Matt Landon, a staff member at the anti-mountaintop removal mining group United Mountain Defense, encountered CTEH in the wake of the 2008 breach in a coal ash dam run by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Landon said his group began its own air monitoring after finding CTEH employees installing low-volume monitors that community advocates believed were not strong enough to measure air quality in compliance with EPA standards.
“People were getting sick,” Landon recalled, “eyes swelling up, rashes, ear aches, wedding bands tarnishing. They said it was taking them time to get high-volume monitors out there.”
In 2010, Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) called for BP to end its contract with CTEH. The lawmakers alleged that CTEH had a history of botched data collection methods and supplying insufficient data to serve the corporate interests of its employers rather than protecting public health.
They cited the company’s inaccurate monitoring procedures during an air quality survey following the 2008 coal ash spill in Tennessee, bad sampling techniques used to evaluate soil contamination at a 2005 refinery spill in Louisiana, and a controversial analysis of toxic drywall in 2006.
“When commissioned by Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin to test their Chinese drywall for toxicity, CTEH concluded that it was not toxic. However, the Consumer Product Safety Commission found it to be the top “problem drywall” for hydrogen sulfide contamination,” the lawmakers explained.
Knauf Plasterboard later settled a class-action lawsuit by agreeing to pay between $600 million and $1 billion to homeowners affected by the hazardous material.
“Enlisting CTEH—a company with a long history of questionable practices—is just another indication that BP is more concerned about their own bottom line than the public’s health,” the lawmakers concluded. “The choice of CTEH to perform critical toxicology functions is yet another misstep at the expense of public health.”
Katlyn Schwarzwaelder, a Doberman kennel owner in East Palestine, Ohio, joined the Glenn Beck show yesterday and said that four of her dogs were projectile vomiting, her eyes and throat get itchy and burn when she visits her home, and she plans to abandon East Palestine forever because of her long-term health concerns.
Schwarzwaelder also described an interaction with a CTEH contractor and an EPA official that came to test the air quality at her home:
We were told by Norfolk personnel that the agency coming to our homes to test was from independent laboratories. Now, what I can tell you first hand is that we had a gentleman from CTEH, which is the so-called independent laboratory, we had spoken to him very informally, and he said, “we follow around the railroad when they make mistakes, and they are happy to have us here.”
When CTEH came to our facility to test our air, they had not offered water services at that point in time; they handed me a contract that essentially said that I needed to hold Norfolk, their affiliates, including CTEH, harmless of any future liabilities.
I didn’t sign it, but unfortunately, 340 other residents did sign it. That’s where my heart just breaks for these people because we don’t know the long-term repercussions of what these chemicals can do in our air to our environment to our businesses and they’ve signed their rights away in the hopes that they are getting help and the right answers from these organizations.
CTEH the affiliate of Norfolk that came to test the air was followed by the EPA. We asked if the EPA can come into our kennel and can they test themselves because they are a government organization that has the ability and they have the testing equipment with them and the answer was absolutely not.
It is concerning to hear that 340 residents affected by the Norfolk Southern train crash in East Palestine, Ohio, may have already signed settlement agreements that waive their legal rights. Residents should seek legal advice before signing any contracts to ensure that they receive proper compensation for any damages or losses they have suffered.
In a similar 2005 incident, a Norfolk Southern train crashed and spilled toxic chemicals in Graniteville, South Carolina, causing 5,400 residents to evacuate their homes. Residents who immediately accepted compensation and signed settlement agreements with Norfolk Southern forfeited their right to any further damages.
It is also concerning to hear that the EPA is not testing homes and businesses and instead recommending residents sign contracts with CTEH, a consulting firm hired by Norfolk Southern with a controversial reputation.
Residents affected by the Norfolk Southern train crash deserve an independent testing company that does not have a track record of downplaying the impact of environmental disasters to cater to the interests of their corporate employers. Otherwise, it would be like having the proverbial “fox guarding the chicken coop.”
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To View the video in the above twitter click here: https://twitter.com/i/status/1628469529327071234
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Liberal Twitter rages at Trump for bringing water to Ohio after rail disaster: ‘S—– a– Trump water‘
“Oddly, ‘Trump Water’ is what his diaper valet calls it,” anti-Trump PAC founder Rick Wilson wrote
Trump visits East Palestine, Ohio following train derailment
Fox News correspondent Mike Tobin has the latest on the former president’s trip on ‘Special Report.’
Liberal Twitter influencers stormed the social media platform yesterday after former President Donald Trump donated water and other supplies to the residents of East Palestine, Ohio.
The former president’s visit came just days after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in the small Ohio town, causing anxiety in some residents about the safety of local drinking water.
As a result, Trump donated water and other supplies to East Palestine, including his namesake “Trump Spring Water,” which he jokingly called “Trump water.”
But some Twitter influencers expressed anger at the news.
The former president donated water and other supplies to East Palestine, including his namesake “Trump Spring Water,” which he jokingly called “Trump water.” (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Anti-Trump PAC The Lincoln Project blamed Trump for the toxic train disaster in Ohio.
“Trump shredded the safety regulations that could have kept East Palestine residents safe and then rolled into town with Trump water and a campaign slogan. He’s as useless now as he was as a president.”
Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson mocked Trump for donating water to residents Wednesday.
“Oddly, ‘Trump Water’ is what his diaper valet calls it.”
Authorities plan to release toxic chemicals from a derailed tanker car in Ohio. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Leftist Twitter influencer “Jo” accused Trump of causing the train derailment, cursing out the former president online.
“‘I brought you whatever I had left of my s—– a– trump water, did my little point at boring things photo-ops & threw some red hats at McDonald’s workers, what a hoot! Have fun with the rail disaster I helped to facilitate!!’”
“We stand with you. We pray for you. And we will stand with you and your fight to help ensure the accountability that you deserve.”
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg refused to answer questions about the toxic train derailment Tuesday, telling a reporter he was taking “personal time.”
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has announced that he will visit East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday, 20 days after the train first derailed in the state.
Buttigieg has previously refused to answer questions about the toxic train derailment, telling a reporter Tuesday that he was taking “personal time.”
(in the middle of a transportation disaster? The head of transportation is taking “personal time”???)
Fox News’ Brian Flood and Brandon Gillespie contributed to this report.
Story tips can be sent to jeffrey.clark@fox.com.
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As Corporations and the wealthy elite line their pockets with the proceeds from the blood, sweat and tears of America’s working class, and government officials and political fat cats continually enjoy the good life as the award themselves pay raises and benefits; the Infrastructure of our nation which was supposed to be maintained by our taxes is collapsing before our very eyes. When these types of disasters occur due to neglect, the fatcats do nothing to render aid or compensate the victims or provide funds for the ongoing devastating effects.
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All I want to say is THEY DON’T REALLY CARE ABOUT US!
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It’s all ok in Ohio…
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In an attempt to bolster confidence in the safety of the drinking water in East Palestine, Ohio, Governor DeWine and EPA administrator Michael Regan toured a home and drank glasses of tap water to show their confidence in the testing that’s being conducted in the area.
Like: ‘Hey look, I didn’t die from that one sip I took. Clearly it means it’s safe!‘
It’s probably safe to drink one gulp. But not as your daily source of water in food and drinks.
Just keep in mind that during another Vinyl Chloride train derailment back in 2012 in New Jersey, residents were evacuated from Paulsboro for 3 weeks although they had been exposed to 9x less poison than in Ohio…
Former President Donald Trump visited East Palestine. “Biden and FEMA said they would not be sending federal aid to East Palestine. As soon as I announced that I’m going, he announced a team will go,”
Trump announced on his social media platform Truth Social. “Hopefully he will also be there. This is good news because we got them to “move.” The people of East Palestine need help. I’ll see you on Wednesday!”
In preparation for Trump’s appearance, East Palestine City Schools announced that they will be closed on Wednesday due to “heightened security measures” and the “significant number of street closures.”
This is what Trump delivered before arriving in E. Palestine…
Trump paid for all of the tens of thousands of pounds of goods, food, water being delivered to the people of East Palestine, Ohio…
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Meanwhile, Alan Shaw CEO of Norfolk Southern, who was paid $4,362,801 in 2021, offered inhabitants of East Palestine an amazing $1000 each. Unbelievable! All that is required is for them to sign a paper (I would really read the fineprints before doing anything)…
Friday, activist Erin Brockovich will hold a town hall in East Palestine. Brockovich served as the subject of the 2000 biographical film in which Julia Roberts won an Academy Award for best actress for portraying her.
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Always remember folks that “tests” just like “statistics” CANNOT BE TRUSTED!! They can ALWAYS be manipulated to produce the desired results.
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