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white cloud

(2,567 posts)
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 07:33 PM Apr 2013

Look out Belgrade Montana

Just a heads up on this new reporter. He must have got payed some big money to cover up for this company.

Run fast if you live near this plant.

‘What we have here is very safe’

Local fertilizer company explains how a Texas-type explosion is unlikely
http://www.belgrade-news.com/news/article_e1faf962-abbe-11e2-ac03-001a4bcf887a.html





Texas City disaster
The Texas City disaster of April 16, 1947 was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history, and one of the largest non-nuclear explosions. Originating with a mid-morning fire on board the French-registered vessel SS Grandcamp (docked in the Port of Texas City), its cargo of approximately 2,300 tons (approximately 2,100 metric tons) of ammonium nitrate detonated,[1] with the initial blast and subsequent chain-reaction of further fires and explosions in other ships and nearby oil-storage facilities killing at least 581 people, including all but one member of the Texas City fire department.[2] The disaster triggered the first ever class action lawsuit against the United States government, under the then-recently enacted Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), on behalf of 8,485 victims.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster



The writer is telling you that Ammonia Nitrate is safe.

Check out the Murray Building explosion also

And the resent West, Texas explosion
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Look out Belgrade Montana (Original Post) white cloud Apr 2013 OP
and he said AN is not explosive? white cloud Apr 2013 #1

white cloud

(2,567 posts)
1. and he said AN is not explosive?
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 08:52 PM
Apr 2013

Last edited Thu Apr 25, 2013, 03:11 PM - Edit history (1)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate_disasters


ln any quest for safety, information is key. As a journalist, you hold responsibility for spreading information - this piece is a disservice to safety.
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