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What is being underplayed: -Same chemical by products as the chemicals stored at the Bhopal disaster -Railroad unions have been warning of this outcome for mor
by fredgrott 4y ago
What is being underplayed:
-Same chemical by products as the chemicals stored at the Bhopal disaster
-Railroad unions have been warning of this outcome for more than 10 years
They will end up suing NS as the town will have to be evacuated again and demolished as they will find that the water-table has been polluted beyond repair.
- NotYourLawyer 4y agoBhopal was methyl isocyanate.
- downvotetruth 4y agoThe most concerning chemical when Bhopal occurred was methyl isocyanate. But, although it was the most concerning, many other chemicals are at Bhopal that would be a significant problem in themselves, which are not possibilities for the current topic.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- yabones 4y ago...Not to mention the dispersion along the entire Ohio River watershed, which supplies drinking water for about 5M people.
- rgrieselhuber 4y agoNot sure why this is being downvoted.
- hanniabu 4y ago[flagged]
- pdabbadabba 4y agoBecause it's extremely misleading. They're invoking the name of the Bhopal disaster even though they seem to know that the actual toxin released in that disaster (methyl isocyanate) is not one of the chemicals on the NS train (or one of their products, as far as I know). Instead, they're talking about the chemicals "stored at" the Bhopal disaster, which may make the comment technically true (I don't know) but very very misleading since those chemicals had nothing to do with the mass death for which the incident is infamous.
- mrguyorama 4y agoBecause it's entirely wrong.
- hoppyhoppy2 4y ago>Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html