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Re: Lac Megantic? $#it Happens?
Author: BOB2
Date: 09-05-2014 - 08:08
Safety is of the first importance, obedience to the rules is required.....
Another interesting thread with a lot of input from folks who somehow appear to think it is foolish to regulate the movement of dangerous materials after a serious and avoidable tragedy?
Every rule in the book of rules is written in blood, as are many of our regulations affecting transportation safety. Folks don't take it lightly when you blow a town away and kill a bunch of innocent folks. And, the track record of safety with the transport of much more volatile fracking oils, has been mixed, at best. So this is the natural reaction of most folks, and of others who have to pick up the pieces and pay the tab, like fire fighters and insurance companies, and of citizens looking at piles of burned corpses, and rows of burned out buildings.
The speed at which this thread degenerated into some of the usual mindless political bull$#it was truly amazing. Federal regulations are needed, and are already on the way. Local politicians will always want there two cents worth of input, too. They probably don't have some of the authority they need to regulate these shipments, but until someone tells them no, that's the way it is.
MMA and its criminally incompetent management caused folks to wake up to the dangers of transporting trains of fracking oil, and the genie is out of the bottle. When you kill a lot of innocent people and destroy so much property through such incompetence, you will have new regulations to try and prevent it again.
Another interesting thread with a lot of input from folks who somehow appear to think it is foolish to regulate the movement of dangerous materials after a serious and avoidable tragedy?
Every rule in the book of rules is written in blood, as are many of our regulations affecting transportation safety. Folks don't take it lightly when you blow a town away and kill a bunch of innocent folks. And, the track record of safety with the transport of much more volatile fracking oils, has been mixed, at best. So this is the natural reaction of most folks, and of others who have to pick up the pieces and pay the tab, like fire fighters and insurance companies, and of citizens looking at piles of burned corpses, and rows of burned out buildings.
The speed at which this thread degenerated into some of the usual mindless political bull$#it was truly amazing. Federal regulations are needed, and are already on the way. Local politicians will always want there two cents worth of input, too. They probably don't have some of the authority they need to regulate these shipments, but until someone tells them no, that's the way it is.
MMA and its criminally incompetent management caused folks to wake up to the dangers of transporting trains of fracking oil, and the genie is out of the bottle. When you kill a lot of innocent people and destroy so much property through such incompetence, you will have new regulations to try and prevent it again.
