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CI Boom 2013 May to Dec describes critical infrastructure disasters. What can be done
to mitigate such incidents are in my main analysis document.1 Last updated 2014 Feb 15
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Table of Contents, allow up to level 3 Summary ..................................................................................................................... 2 Notable CI disasters 2013 May to December ..................................................................... 2 2013 May 3 Toledo Ohio ............................................................................................ 3 May 5 Houghton, Michigan ........................................................................................ 3 May 10 Free Markets vs. Safety Regulations ............................................................. 3 May 16 Federal Fracking Regulations Change = Controversy................................... 4 May 28 Week of Natural Gas Leaks and explosions .................................................. 4 2013 June ........................................................................................................................ 5 Jun 3 Week of Natural Gas Leaks and explosions...................................................... 5 Jun 10 Glasgow Scotland............................................................................................ 5 Jun 10 Week of Natural Gas Leaks and explosions.................................................... 5 Jun 13 Geismar LA Chemical Plant disaster .............................................................. 6 Jun 17 Week of Natural Gas Leaks and explosions.................................................... 6 June 18 Chemical 8,000 disasters report..................................................................... 7 Jun 22 Indianapolis recycling facility ......................................................................... 7 June 25 Keystone Defense .......................................................................................... 7 2013 July......................................................................................................................... 7 July 5 Canada Oil Derailment..................................................................................... 7 July 10 Indy Trial........................................................................................................ 8 Aug 15 Indy Trial........................................................................................................ 8 Aug 24-25 national problems...................................................................................... 8 2013 Sep.......................................................................................................................... 8 Sep 29 ND pipeline spill ............................................................................................. 8 2013 Oct 19 Canada Oil Derailment........................................................................... 9 2013 Nov pipeline explosions in China ...................................................................... 9 2013 Nov 8 Al Oil Derailment.................................................................................... 9 2013 Dec ......................................................................................................................... 9 Dec Mexico radiation incident.................................................................................... 9 Dec China mall ......................................................................................................... 10 2013 Dec 30 ND Oil Derailment .............................................................................. 10 Continued in more documents .......................................................................................... 10
http://www.scribd.com/doc/114094060/Indy-Boom
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The following is also description in Scribd upload, of what is relevant to this time line segment. Events, in this time line segment, occurred in: Britain; Canada; China; Mexico; USA. They include: chemical industry; natural gas; crude oil; pipelines; railroads; trucking; construction work; medical radiation; criminals. FOIA = Freedom of Information Act. Organizations periodically publish results of FOIA requests to get at the results of investigations, and statistics known to the government, which the news media previously had neglected.
My overall analysis and mitigation evaluation is in a separate parent document, from these incident time-line chunks.2 Scribd loses statistics when we change document name, so I kept the original name Indy Boom because I first started looking into this topic on the occasion of a gas explosion which demolished a housing sub-division of Indianapolis. That incident turned out to be deliberate sabotage for insurance fraud, which is not the typical cause of these industrial disasters. There seem to be many causes, such as: ignorance about risks, on the part of companies, government officials, and the general public; criminal negligence, more commonly unintentional than intentional; insufficient corporate reporting to local government what dangerous chemicals they have, so that zoning can avoid schools and high density population right next door; a lack of public education to get witnesses to promptly report leak odors; government safety and environmental regulations poorly communicated to where there is need to know them typically government inspectors visit a microscopic fraction of places they know about, and educate thru infraction notification, while there are many thousands of relevant places unknown to regulatory agencies; certain stupid behavior leads to totally avoidable disasters, but this happens piecemeal in community after community, different places which fail to learn from a million other communities, until it is their turn to experience the same type event.
good for business. California is controlled by Democrats who say a safe place to live and work is good for business. QUOTE The latest flare-up centers on a Sacramento Bee cartoon in which Perry says Business is booming in Texas. It then shows the recent, tragic fertilizer plant explosion in West Texas. Cartoons are rarely subtle, and the message here is that Texas lower-regulation climate is responsible for a blast that killed 14 people and injured 200. UNQUOTE Texas Governor Perry wrote an angry response to this. I disagree that the Sacramento Bee is not independent of state worker unions, but in any case, it had a reply to Gov Perry, then had a similar cartoon with a parallel to the building which fell down in Bangladesh, killing hundreds of people. Reason rightfully points out that the PG&E explosion in San Bruno California was not prevented by California state regulations, or their enforcement. Every state in the USA has these events. I agree that poorer nations cannot afford better standards, but the article did not make clear that richer nations, like the USA, cant seem to enforce them.
http://www.naturalgaswatch.org/?p=2016 http://www.naturalgaswatch.org/?p=2046
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http://www.indystar.com/usatoday/article/2419151 http://www.naturalgaswatch.org/?p=2098
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appears the train began rolling down the descending grade toward the town of Lac-Mgantic, about 30 miles from the U.S. border. Near the center of town, 63 tank cars derailed, resulting in multiple explosions and subsequent fires. There were 47 fatalities and extensive damage to the town. 2,000 people were evacuated. The initial determination was that the braking force applied volatile than expected. to the train was insufficient to hold it on the 1.2% grade and that the crude oil released was more
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http://blogs.fas.org/sciencewonk/2013/12/mexican-radiation-accident-part/ http://blogs.fas.org/security/2013/12/radioactive-theft-mexico-thief-doesnt-know-can-kill/ 26 http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/12/27/Explosion-triggers-fire-at-Chinese-mall-fourdead-35-injured/UPI-98641388148404/ 27 http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43390.pdf 25 pages 28 http://www.scribd.com/doc/203317455/CI-Boom-0-thru-1999 29 http://www.scribd.com/doc/203688481/CI-Boom-2000-to-2006 30 http://www.scribd.com/doc/204262969/CI-Boom-2007 31 http://www.scribd.com/doc/206714326/CI-Boom-2008-to-2009 32 http://www.scribd.com/doc/206962922/CI-Boom-2010-to-2011 33 http://www.scribd.com/doc/204042682/CI-Boom-2012 34 http://www.scribd.com/doc/204889417/CI-Boom-2013-Jan-to-March 35 http://www.scribd.com/doc/204575461/CI-Boom-2013-April 36 http://www.scribd.com/doc/203973261/CI-Boom-2014-Jan-9-W-Va-Water
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These other time line history segments shall be uploaded to the same SCRIBD Critical Infrastructure collection.37 Revision history will be maintained in the main parent document.
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