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Two weeks ago a large oil refinery in Irbil (northern Iraq) caught on fire, injuring 14 people with burns and smoke inhalation [1]. This is regrettable. I feel
by vegetablepotpie 2y ago
Two weeks ago a large oil refinery in Irbil (northern Iraq) caught on fire, injuring 14 people with burns and smoke inhalation [1].
This is regrettable. I feel sorry for the people, and their families, who have been injured and killed in these accidents. Industrial activities are dangerous. We should recognize this. We do these activities because we want energy. This is news because battery factories are new, whereas other forms of energy have been around for over a hundred years. An oil refinery catching on fire may make the news, but it won’t get sensationalized or be editorialized as signs of a worrying new trend.
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/world/firefighters-battle-massive-fire-at-northern-iraq-oil-refinery/ar-BB1oafkn https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/world/firefighters-battle-mas...
- lenerdenator 2y agoI like to direct people to the US CSB's YouTube channel [0] to help demonstrate this. People's memory for something that's already happened before is short. We regularly have major accidents and loss of life in the hydrocarbon industry, but it's almost routine at this point, so people don't think about it. [0]https://www.youtube.com/@USCSB https://www.youtube.com/@USCSB
- nerdponx 2y agoBut if you watch all of those videos, a common theme is negligence and normalization of deviance due to management being cheap. If it's not news, every time it happens, it will keep happening. It doesn't matter what industry it's in.
- nerdponx 2y agoIs it regrettable, or preventable? The fact that the oil refinery fire was not in the news is an indictment of how the news handles industrial disasters in general.