The Lebanon explosions.

[COLVERT]

Those dreadful explosions in the Lebanon.

The government there is saying the culprits will be found and punished !!!!!!!

It's the government who allowed nearly 3,000 tons of explosive substances to be stored there for what seems now to be many years.

Passing the buck springs to mind.--- It was him wot did it, not me.

[Rick-sta]

Awful, saw all the video clips on facebook and on the news yesterday. Never seen an explosion like it with a mushroom cloud!

Initially thought it must have been a bomb, but now as more footage has emerged it looks more like a fire caused some very explosive chemicals or substances to ignite.

What an earth were they doing storing that kind of explosive material there.

Many lives lost, we'll see the death count go up in the coming days.

[suzublu]

Poor storage of ammonium nitrate apparently


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[KWIL]

Ammonium Nitrate = fertiliser?

[Rogue]

Originally Posted by KWIL

Ammonium Nitrate = fertiliser?

Yup... A high nitrogen fertiliser. It is also a componant of commonly used explosives.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammoni...rate_disasters

[wraymond]

There seems no limit to the disregard for human life, not just in that location but in our own backyard as well. The only motivational impulse is to destroy any resistance to public disapproval of minority organisations using criminal and murderous means to gain a hollow supremacy. And then even for a relatively short time. From acts of war to estate gangs, we are fools to tolerate it.

Even when they get into power their only course is to subjugate and terrorise the population to maintain supremacy. And then make spurious claims of divine support. They are sick, not ill, just sick. That material was for anything but fertiliser, unless of course for the gardener's joy - blood and bone. They certainly got that, most of it from children.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

[Rogue]

Originally Posted by wraymond

There seems no limit to the disregard for human life, not just in that location but in our own backyard as well. The only motivational impulse is to destroy any resistance to public disapproval of minority organisations using criminal and murderous means to gain a hollow supremacy. And then even for a relatively short time. From acts of war to estate gangs, we are fools to tolerate it.

Even when they get into power their only course is to subjugate and terrorise the population to maintain supremacy. And then make spurious claims of divine support. They are sick, not ill, just sick. That material was for anything but fertiliser, unless of course for the gardener's joy - blood and bone. They certainly got that, most of it from children.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

I believe it was confiscated from a non seaworthy ship 6 years ago. What is surprising is that it hadn't been moved out of the warehouse in all that time.

[Snetty]

Back in the late eighties early nineties I used to deliver that stuff to farms, there was nothing more needed than an square orange board on the front of the truck and a small fire extinguisher. The only training we were given was ' if the truck catches fire wet your finger to determine the wind direction and run as fast as you can into it,'

[BoroRover]

The chemical site at Billingham on Teesside had both Ammonia and Nitrate plants on the north bank of the Tees, big fertiliser producers for many years.
Under new ownership now, if they still run the plants.

[WillyHeckaslike]

Not sure that the official line of the subject country will pass honest scrutiny as to how this came to pass. Any such scrutiny should begin with the point of origin of the nitrate and leave no stone unturned. No cover stories, just the truth.