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Re: California Officials Investigating Bungling Biden Loss of 30-Ton Shipment of Explosive Chemicals
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Alvin Bragg
May 20, 2023, 7:31:59 PM5/20/23
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On 07 Dec 2021, "Andrew Anglin - White Supremacist Pedo Boy"
<a...@ssaohell.com> posted some news:soonp5$kus$2...@news.dns-netz.com:
> Mighty Wannabe wrote
>
>> There's proof Biden and Harris should both be fired.
Some 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used as both fertilizer
and a component in explosives, went missing as it was shipped by rail from
Wyoming to California last month, prompting four separate investigations.
A railcar loaded with 30 tons of the chemical left Cheyenne, Wyoming, on
April 12. The car was found to be empty after it arrived two weeks later
at a rail stop in the Mojave Desert, according to a short incident report
from the explosives firm that made the shipment.
The company, Dyno Nobel, made the report May 10 to the federal National
Response Center, or NRC. The report also appeared last week in an NRC
database of California incidents managed by the state Office of Emergency
Services last Wednesday.
Ammonium nitrate is commonly used as fertilizer. It’s also an ingredient
in high explosives and was used in the homemade bomb detonated in the 1995
attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Dyno Nobel says it believes the material — transported in pellet form in a
covered hopper car similar to those used to ship coal — fell from the car
on the way to a rail siding (a short track connecting with the main track)
called Saltdale about 30 miles from the town of Mojave in eastern Kern
County.
“The railcar was sealed when it left the Cheyenne facility, and the seals
were still intact when it arrived in Saltdale. The initial assessment is
that a leak through the bottom gate on the railcar may have developed in
transit,” the company said through a spokesperson.
A Federal Railroad Administration representative, though, says the
investigation points to one of the hopper car gates not being properly
closed.
Dyno Nobel says the trip lasted two weeks and included multiple stops. The
company says it had “limited control” over the railcar as Union Pacific
moved it through the country. It says the railcar is being transported
back to Wyoming for inspection. And it says it hopes to understand how the
shipment was lost and will work to prevent something similar happening
again.
The Federal Railroad Administration, the California Public Utilities
Commission, Union Pacific and Dyno Nobel are investigating the incident,
according to their representatives.
Congress passed a law in 2007 to regulate the sale and transfer of
ammonium nitrate to prevent its use in acts of terrorism. The Department
of Homeland Security issued proposed regulations in 2011 (PDF) but stopped
short of formally adopting them.
<https://www.kqed.org/news/11949697/california-officials-trying-to-track-
down-missing-30-ton-shipment-of-explosive-chemicals>
<a...@ssaohell.com> posted some news:soonp5$kus$2...@news.dns-netz.com:
> Mighty Wannabe wrote
>
>> There's proof Biden and Harris should both be fired.
Some 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used as both fertilizer
and a component in explosives, went missing as it was shipped by rail from
Wyoming to California last month, prompting four separate investigations.
A railcar loaded with 30 tons of the chemical left Cheyenne, Wyoming, on
April 12. The car was found to be empty after it arrived two weeks later
at a rail stop in the Mojave Desert, according to a short incident report
from the explosives firm that made the shipment.
The company, Dyno Nobel, made the report May 10 to the federal National
Response Center, or NRC. The report also appeared last week in an NRC
database of California incidents managed by the state Office of Emergency
Services last Wednesday.
Ammonium nitrate is commonly used as fertilizer. It’s also an ingredient
in high explosives and was used in the homemade bomb detonated in the 1995
attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Dyno Nobel says it believes the material — transported in pellet form in a
covered hopper car similar to those used to ship coal — fell from the car
on the way to a rail siding (a short track connecting with the main track)
called Saltdale about 30 miles from the town of Mojave in eastern Kern
County.
“The railcar was sealed when it left the Cheyenne facility, and the seals
were still intact when it arrived in Saltdale. The initial assessment is
that a leak through the bottom gate on the railcar may have developed in
transit,” the company said through a spokesperson.
A Federal Railroad Administration representative, though, says the
investigation points to one of the hopper car gates not being properly
closed.
Dyno Nobel says the trip lasted two weeks and included multiple stops. The
company says it had “limited control” over the railcar as Union Pacific
moved it through the country. It says the railcar is being transported
back to Wyoming for inspection. And it says it hopes to understand how the
shipment was lost and will work to prevent something similar happening
again.
The Federal Railroad Administration, the California Public Utilities
Commission, Union Pacific and Dyno Nobel are investigating the incident,
according to their representatives.
Congress passed a law in 2007 to regulate the sale and transfer of
ammonium nitrate to prevent its use in acts of terrorism. The Department
of Homeland Security issued proposed regulations in 2011 (PDF) but stopped
short of formally adopting them.
<https://www.kqed.org/news/11949697/california-officials-trying-to-track-
down-missing-30-ton-shipment-of-explosive-chemicals>
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