large explosion!!!!!
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Lettie & I have just been watching video footage of the explosion on CNN, in our hotel in Reims.
CNN have speculated that a plane crashed into the oil refinery. Could the terrorists be on a Christmas campaign?
CNN have speculated that a plane crashed into the oil refinery. Could the terrorists be on a Christmas campaign?
Hope it was an accident on not a terror campaign. I stay close to the giant BP/Inovene complex up here. Along with GE plastics, the plants that were part of the old ICI set up and numerous other chemical and plastics companies. If the refinery went up my little spot would be obliterated and the fire fighting would start 3 miles away as the crow flies as everything up to the point will be blown into oblivion.
Oh dear ... anymore news.
The time bomb up here has the smokers in sealed rooms and no lighters or matches are allowed. Anything that can spark is banned (explaining lack of bright sparks in management) Any onsite viechle has to be deisel powered and the exhausts fitted with spark arresters. Even safty boots have to have a hard wearing cover on the toe to stop the toe cap being exposed. Any kind of plant has to be inspected daily by their own safty crews and a 24 hour permit issued. No wonder people think an external force might have been at work.
This is probably wide of the mark but, how strange that this should happen just days after it was announced in the press that Bin Laden's second in command had called for attacks against the oil industry.
We've got family down that way. Busman's brother said they were woken up by the bang. The black cloud is massive!
The long term environmental effect must be a worry. I heard there were concerns that when it next rains it will be black and that would affect the water and the milk supply (cows eating polluted grass)!!!
Surely that black cloud will lead to long term health issues regardless of what the experts are saying.