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Arkema CEO: “No Way To Prevent Imminent Explosion” At Flooded Texas Chemical Plant
Arkema CEO: “No Way To Prevent Imminent Explosion” At Flooded Texas Chemical Plant
Yesterday we reported, that in a potentially disastrous outcome from the Harvey flooding, a chemical plant in Crosby, Texas belonging to French industrial giant Arkema SA, has announced it is evacuating workers due to the risk of an explosion, after Tropical Storm Harvey knocked out power and flooding swamped its backup generators. The French company said the situation at the plant “has become serious” and said that it is working with the Department of Homeland Security and the State of Texas to set up a command post in a suitable location near our site.
The plant, which produces explosive organic peroxides and ammonia, was hit by more than 40 inches of rain and has been heavily flooded, running without electricity since Sunday. The plant was closed since Friday but has had a skeleton staff of about a dozen in place. Following the flood surge, the plant’s back-up generators also failed. The threat emerged once the company could no longer maintain refrigeration for chemicals located on site, which have to be stored at low temperatures. The plant lost cooling when backup generators were flooded and then workers transferred products from the warehouses into diesel-powered refrigerated containers.
On Tuesday afternoon, the company released a statement which admitted that “refrigeration on some of our back-up product storage containers has been compromised due to extremely high water, which is unprecedented in the Crosby area. We are monitoring the temperature of each refrigeration container remotely.” It then warned that “while we do not believe there is any imminent danger, the potential for a chemical reaction leading to a fire and/or explosion within the site confines is real.”
One day later, and with the torrential rains finally over, has the situation at the giant peroxide chemical plant stabilized? Unfortunately, according to Reuters, the answer is no.
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KIEV FORCES CAUSE EXPLOSION AT CHEMICAL FACTORY IN DONETSK – OFFICIALS
KIEV FORCES CAUSE EXPLOSION AT CHEMICAL FACTORY IN DONETSK – OFFICIALS
A powerful explosion has occurred at a chemical factory in the city of Donetsk in southeastern Ukraine as a result of artillery shelling by Kiev forces, Ukrainian officials have informed on their social network accounts.
The explosion occurred late Sunday night.
Borys Filatov, former deputy governor of Dnipropetrovsk, and current member of the Ukrainian parliament, Verkhovna Rada, wrote on Facebook that the same “heroes” who had cut the “aviation of LPR [self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic]” have shelled Donetsk from the Smerch rocket launchers.
Earlier, leader of Ukraine’s Right Sector movement Dmytro Yarosh announced that the explosion was caused by artillery belonging to Kiev forces.
Meanwhile, Konstantin Dolgoff, co-chairman of the People’s Front of Novorossiya (united front established last spring by the self-proclaimed people’s republics in Ukraine’s southeast) said on his Facebook page that the explosion occurred at a chemical plant in Donetsk.
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