Huge Chemical Explosion in Texas.

[busterbrown]

Thousands must evacuate.....On Thanksgiving as well....

Very frightening situation..... Maybe Deregulation might have something to do with this..??

You think??????

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/28/us/texas-plant-explosions-thursday-evacuations/index.html

[dalton99a]

1. They need to get rid of safety rules

[dewsgirl]

3. I hate him.

[William Seger]

11. Trump has UNdone more than any president in history

80+ EPA regulations rolled back, and behind every one, a GOP donor corporation now making more profit while everyone else bears the risks and the consequences.

[dewsgirl]

2. I posted a couple live streams after the two yesterday.

Was there a new one?

[busterbrown]

4. I just found out about this this am

You would think there would be more coverage..

I just saw a post on de-regulation and it's relationship to this fiasco

[RAB910]

5. Texas is the home of the GOP's fuck the people by removing deregulation

I have a long history of emergency planning and training. When you see where TX allows dangerous chemical plants to be built, you think of the crazy tabletop drills where they put the chemical plant right next to a school, 2 daycares, a nursing home, and a hospital. When we are given these sorts of crazy scenarios everyone is like, "oh come on! this would never happen". Only in Texas, it does

[dalton99a]

7. +1. Houston is an affront to Sim City:

[rownesheck]

6. Not the first explosion

in that area. When I was younger, there were at least a couple others I can remember. I've said in another post, it's gross out there. Some of those neighborhoods basically reside within the refineries themselves. Glad I'm away from there. My grandfather and some other family members had to evacuate. Don't know why they even live in cancer alley.

[jberryhill]

8. it's okay, they are ably represented by this guy

US Rep. Randy Weber:



In January 2014, during President Obama's State of the Union address, Weber in a tweet referred to the President as "Kommandant-In-Chef" [sic] and "the Socialist dictator." After the White House apologized for failing to send a more high profile leader to a demonstration in Paris following the January 2015 terrorist attacks in that city, Weber tweeted, "Even Adolph [sic] Hitler thought it more important than Obama to get to Paris."


That is the man whom the majority of the voting citizens of that fair district believe most ably represents them and their views.

They are obviously in good hands with Mr. Weber and hence I need not concern myself.

[Gothmog]

9. Doorbell cameras in Port Neches, Texas captured the moment of a chemical refinery explosion

Link to tweet

[busterbrown]

12. Thanks for the link...

Man... so little coverage on this potential catastrophe

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Companies adapt to de-regulation much faster than to regulation. . . . . nt

[erronis]

13. This like Cancer Alley in Louisiana shows how much the MIPC cares about southerners and people

They only hire the best PR people. But they don't mind shafting everybody that lives in their designated target areas.

ProPublica and others have exposed for several years how the chem industry builds unsafe plants next to vulnerable people. But the politicians are well paid.
https://www.propublica.org/article/health-officials-in-cancer-alley-will-study-if-living-near-a-controversial-chemical-plant-causes-cancer

MIPC is Military Industrial Political Complex - a phrase that Eisenhower was purportedly wanting to use but was persuaded to drop the "Political" --- since it would be too "political". All the players in the complex are complicit, perhaps especially the politicians since they are supposed to represent US.

[Farmer-Rick]

14. The filthy rich are trying to kill us all.

Whether it is thru wars, lack of medical care, lack of medicine, global warming, poverty, lack of basic safety and health regulations, tainted foods or dangerous products, the filthy rich are trying to kill us all....for fun and profit.

There's a reason why Bill Gates has weekly meetings with Traitor Trump. That's a reason why not one single filthy rich family stands in opposition to Traitor Trump.

[stopdiggin]

15. thoughts and prayers

and then an immediate reminder of which people are huge fans of environmental and safety deregulation.

(Sorry for the snark .. and the people injured NEVER deserve the hand their dealt .. but it is probably time that we start, rather emphatically, connecting some dots. Texas has LONG been enthusiastic scofflaw of any kind of common sense regulations.)