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Deer Park petrochemical fires

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by ThatBoyNick, Mar 18, 2019.

  1. Buck Turgidson

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    He and others on the Court were also CHAMPS at helping to cause flooding problems in the first place, starting decades ago.
     
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    Also, Emmett is the reason Toll roads that have been paid off for years still cost money. **** THAT *******. HE DESERVED TO LOSE.
     
  3. LonghornFan

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    Please explain how I am giving her a hard time. I responded to someone else who had something to say about her. I have said nothing about how she is handling this or even brought up her in this thread. I made a dumb post about Hipsters, it's what I do.
     
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  4. Buck Turgidson

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    It's what everybody does, deservedly so.
     
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  6. Buck Turgidson

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    Totally unsurprising. Maybe someday the people of Texas (and America in general) will require a basic level of regulation and supervision on our industry: ag, petrochem, o&g extraction, aggregate mining, etc.... Yeah, I won't hold my breath, everyone will get all pissed off and then forget about it until it happens again in a few years.

    btw, it takes a bay system much longer to flush itself out than a coastal one, unless there is a storm coming in or a flood going out.

    eta: I would hate to be ITC's casualty/liability insurance carrier right about now.
     
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  7. MystikArkitect

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    Communist.
     
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    BUT MUH INNOVATION
     
  10. Buck Turgidson

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    This is what we're dealing with right now, amongst other development-related (water, mostly) things (thankfully it's not in my area, but it will sure as hell affect my groundwater when it inevitably has a spill)

    A Texas company says its planned $2 billion pipeline will perform a duty integral to the state economy, transporting natural gas from West Texas to near Houston.

    But on Lucy Johnson’s rolling Hill Country family ranch near Kyle, cut through by the Blanco River and sitting atop a vast, natural underground reservoir that flows to Barton Springs, the prospect of a pipeline running beneath her property is an environmental nightmare.

    As some Central Texas property owners scramble to thwart the pipeline from running across their land — a meeting Tuesday night hosted by a Hays County commissioner aims to inform landowners about the path of the line —
    they’re learning a Lone Star State truth: As much as Texas law cherishes property rights, it favors oil and gas interests even more.

    https://www.statesman.com/news/20190128/gas-pipeline-plans-rankle-hill-country-landowners

    Kinder Morgan is also a bad, bad company when it comes to preventing/cleaning accidents and dealing with the locals once they happen. Also, while this is just a natural gas project at the moment, this easement gives them the right to pipe just about anything in the future. The Great State of Texas gave them Imminent Domain authority to do what they want.
     
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    Funny how hard it is to run a bullet train from Houston to Dallas but a pipeline from Odessa to Houston is no problem.
     
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    **** Kinder
     
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    [​IMG]

    Before our innovative approach, you could only witness breathtaking scenes like this in 1970's Godzilla movies.
     
  14. MystikArkitect

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    What were those firefighters breathing battling that blaze?
     
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  15. Buck Turgidson

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    Hopefully tanks, and they'd go swap out and get new ones while other guys took their place. In theory.
     
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    China had a big explosion yesterday.

     
  17. Buck Turgidson

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    The USA Industry Motto: Be More Responsible Than China



     
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    MJ was right.

    They don't really care about us.
     
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    Really shocking. Is the ITC spokesperson lady gonna crocodile tear it up on TV for us again? :rolleyes:
     

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