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by dedeleco » 12/10/10, 23:01

The list of huge explosions is longer in English:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate_disasters

There will always be some for chatelot16, but such a banal fertilizer presents a very underestimated danger that one forgets to teach to its users truckers, farmers, trade and factories.
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by bernardd » 13/10/10, 08:13

dedeleco wrote:such a banal fertilizer presents a very underestimated danger that one forgets to teach to its users truckers, farmers, trade and factories.


A centralized state that only depends on the balance of power does not like to remind the population that it has an explosive weapon.
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by dedeleco » 13/10/10, 13:37

A centralized state that only depends on the balance of power does not like to remind the population that it has an explosive weapon.

Absurd, since these disasters, AZF and others, trivialized too much, are much more effective in reminding the population of the explosive weapon, without teaching the population how to avoid it (no fire or heat, large heaps (too often the case in factories like AZF), no mixing with scorch which burns) which is not teaching an explosive, since the ordinary fertilizer sold everywhere does not explode at all easily, except bad luck or sharp work of chemist !!

There are also trucks with site dynamite which exploded on French roads !!

Finally we find lots of information on the internet that is very little hidden for explosive chemistry, already only on AZF !!!
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroglyc%C3%A9rine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroglycerin
ideal product to kill yourself by doing it, as effectively as gas even more accessible !!
The fuming acid is no longer on current sale, as it was 50 years ago, fortunately !!!


Emil Nobel, Alfred Nobel's brother, died tragically.




Finally there is progress: the danger of certain hospital services becomes a cause of closure in Metz, a first instead of word of mouth with all the possibilities of false rumors !!
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by Christophe » 11/10/11, 11:45

Hungarian justice much more efficient (fine and speed) than French justice with regard to the environment ...

How much did the Total group pay for AZF again? And after how long? Answer here: https://www.econologie.com/forums/proces-azf ... t8793.html : Cry: : Cry:

Red mud: Magyar Aluminum caught up by the courts

One year after the red mud spill in Hungary, the company responsible for the site was fined by the Hungarian courts for 470 million euros. The Hungarian government wants to turn the page but for associations there are many toxic waste deposits to secure in the region.


On October 4, 2010, a reservoir containing red mud, waste from the extraction of alumina from bauxite, broke up in Ajka in Hungary dumping more than 1,8 million tonnes of red mud on nearly 4000 ha and killing 10 people. One year after the worst industrial and ecological disaster in the country, the Hungarian justice has rendered its judgment. It condemned Magyar Aluminum (MAL) which operated the site to a fine of 470 million euros.

For the Hungarian government, the affair is closed and the economy of the region must start again. "The aluminum plant that caused the disaster and its tanks are now completely safe," says its website. The government placed the company under guardianship for a few months and implemented a new sludge drying technique allowing less dangerous storage. The area has been cleared (dredged rivers, carted agricultural land) and destroyed villages rebuilt thanks to the 118 million euros spent by the government. However, many associations are not of the same opinion. "It is estimated that a third of this red mud remains infiltrated into the soil and groundwater, says Christine Bossart of the Robin des Bois association. The Hungarian government wants to pretend that nothing has happened. The government ensures that monitoring of river and drinking water is carried out as well as monitoring the health conditions of the local population. But it guarantees that no negative consequences have been identified so far. However, this sludge is recognized as being seriously toxic and dangerous for the ecosystem into which it is discharged. Very caustic, they also contain heavy metals. "We regret that there is no international monitoring set up in particular for the Danube," adds Christine Bossart.

An area that remains potentially dangerous
The government is also singled out for its poor management of hazardous waste. Since the disaster, Hungary has thus acknowledged that it had misinterpreted the European directive on the treatment of waste from the extractive industries. By transposing it into national law, it did not consider red mud as hazardous waste. The Hungarian parliament finally adopted a law on disaster management last September, but the associations did not release the pressure. “The factory, which resumed operations one month after the disaster, is now forced to dry the sludge. But it still has not set up storage cells with biomembranes to avoid infiltration into the groundwater, ”adds Christine Bossart.

And other associations like Greenpeace to denounce the laxity of the authorities vis-à-vis other dangerous deposits. The organization recently covered a sheet with the inscription "STOP" on another tank of red mud near the Danube in order to condemn the lack of means implemented to secure these waste tanks. "The region is full of toxic, legal or illegal waste warehouses, which constitutes a threat to the environment and the population," protests Balazs Tomori, activist of Greenpeace. “So they didn't do a good job of prevention, they only did a good job of cleaning. WWF Hungary agrees with Greenpeace in recommending the implementation of an action plan in Central and Eastern Europe to map the risks created by landfills inherited from the old regime, often abandoned.

For its part, the company MAL does not seem ready to pay the fine. In a press release on its website, it intends to appeal the decision highlighting a simple argument: if the design and development of the tanks was poorly done, at that time the company was still nationalized. This fault would therefore fall to the State. The Hungarian government, focused on the economic recovery of the area, does not seem really determined to put pressure on the company which employs 6 people in this disaster area and represents 000% of the world market in aluminum.


Source: http://www.novethic.fr/novethic/ecologi ... 135533.jsp
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