I'm from Ohio and have studied policy and environmental issues my adult life in academics, non profit, and government. I really think this is the chemical Chernobyl.
OK. Can you refer me to an article pitched to a numpty as to how bad the stuff spewing out is? Use title, site, date, if you can. UA-cam removes post with exterior links.
@W1erdThOughts I'd look at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and the US EPAs fact sheets on vinyl chloride. Should be one of the first results and summarizes it pretty well in layman terms. In short, I'd say a large amount of people will experience cancer, respiratory, eye, throat, mouth, nervous and circulatory issues.
@@theuscivicsnerd7070 you are so right on what your saying. I heard that ohio river is now bad and fish are popping up dead. Peoples pets are dying. And they are going through peoples homes looking for poison gases. This will spread across the eastern states. People need to film anything they see wrong with water animals plants..
Bhopal would like a word with you (Chemical leak in India that killed thousands). But it's the same shit. If everything was regulated even half as strictly as nuclear we would have basically zero derailments and industrial accidents.
Wow. A local guy with a small UA-cam channel just gave me more info than the mainstream media has since the accident occurred. In less than 3 minutes. Great work, sir. Keep ‘em coming.
I agree also... And you know, all the associated press and news media, don't want to keep you informed... they just want your preference to make rating.
It is genuinely despair-inducing that these CEOs and politicians can just keep doing everything openly to make people's lives worse, and not only are they getting away with it but they've convinced a good portion of folks that it's in their best interests.
@@Troonielicious…Please believe me on this…YES Railroad Management and politicians (usually from the democratic side of the aisle) ALONG with the Labor Unions, ie Brotherhood of Railway Carmen (BRC) among others, who are deep in the pockets of democrats are all in this together…I post this as a 34 year veteran of the NS mechanical dept. who took early retirement from an on the job injury to cover over the keeping of defective boxcars found from inspections from going into Chicago’s repair facility because of the Carmen’s Union’s attempt to keep their members in Chicago from scrutiny at the point of interchange and to smooth things along from the company to “keep things moving along without delay)…thanks to my FELA attorney’s digging this was uncovered and brought into the light of day…railroad employees will know about the Federal Employees Liability Act (FELA) when dealing with the railroad and on the job injuries (it’s a pretty stressful procedure)…thankfully the truth came out…bottom line, NEVER trust the railroad OR the democrat controlled Labor Unions to EVER be forthcoming! And I MEAN NEVER-EVER…they are lying crooks all…that just my thoughts and opinion on the matter!
When you fund the social discourse political party and then the voters who are all suffering from this accident would rather hate each other than realize that it affects them both you have spent your money well ... Keep the peasants fighting amongst themselves and you then have total control
"The more CEOs save money on things like wages and maintenance costs, the more jobs they can create... It's trickle-down economics..." - Boomers who use ellipses for no good reason.
@cincityohio Yes, and that's why people need to take this seriously. If gas is not properly handled, it's not just one state that will be at risk. Food and water will be contaminated, and people's health will be at risk.
I see this every day at my job..I don't work for the railroad , but a corporate owned automotive repair company...Constantly overturning staff zero management consistency...Then there's the equipment repair and replacement schedule , which is ridiculous...If you know anything about shop equipment , it doesn't know it has a breakdown schedule..Nothing gets changed until someone gets hurt or a customers car gets damaged...Profit before safety always....
Medical too. This is happening in all jobs, no one or almost no one cares about quality anymore, only profit. I don't know what's going on in the world
@@coquiluz6979 I do. China has been infiltrating our country for decades. China wants to turn out country into Shit. And they are doing it. We are willing to buy their Chinese made junk that breaks in a week or month and then we go a buy more Chinese made junk
Just saw this guy on breaking points. Very knowledgeable. Grateful for independent journalists that live in the communities they are reporting on. Keep it up!!
i agree, there's zero accountability in this current system. burn it all and make a new one from scratch that isn't influenced by money hungry executives from wall street. BAN LOBBYING
I'm from Brazil and this is sad, sad news indeed. We had an envirinmental disaster that killd thousands of people as a dam not too far away from where I live collapsed and flooded the residential areas in the path of the water that happened for the same reasons described here and so far 0 CEO's have been made accountable. If you're interested, search for "Brumadinho dam Vale do rio Doce"
Well said! Spread the word! I’m a firm believer that exposure and educating the general public on the causes of these problems will help hard working railroaders voices get heard on the issues they deal with in the industry. Hopefully then changes can be made…
Please explain why you think hedge fund managers are responsible for railroad derailments, which have been steadily declining for the last 20 years. If anything, the hedge fund managers have probably been applying pressure on the railroads to improve their safety.
@@ArtStoneUS No, they've been applying pressure to get more profits. Which means less maintenance, less safety, and believe me they will have the best lawyers to try to get out of having to pay a dime to anyone for this disaster.
Knew something like this would happen when I saw the scheduling for all the railroad job postings I read, wanted you to be on call even at 4 am and to work weird and rotating hours, I wonder what happens when all your workers are tired and working overtime because it’s cheaper not to let them see their families then to pay, equip and insure more employees
@@boristheamerican2938 stupid response. This IS NOT POLITICAL. It’s worker rites. Every time they try to strike, damn government over rules it. Railroader & truckers our our backbone of moving goodies we need to support them better. I hate both parties, the whole government s*#ks A##!!!
@@boristheamerican2938 it’s too bad you still refer to the past. If you new anything about the current political parties- both are shit and you should never believe either one.
What is so scary is, I am in Mercer county Pennsylvania and we had a cloud pushed through this area,from the derailment site. NS needs to pay for what they did to all of us.
Incomplete combustion of vinyl chloride produces dioxins。 Dioxin is an organic compound with strong biological toxicity. Its toxicity is 130 times that of cyanide and 900 times that of arsenic. one of the most dangerous chemicals". And because once it penetrates into the environment, it is difficult to degrade and eliminate naturally, so it is called "the poison of the century". [8] Dioxins generally refer to a group of polychlorinated substituted planar aromatic hydrocarbons with similar structures and physical and chemical properties, belonging to chlorinated oxygen-containing tricyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, including 75 polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins ( polychlorodibenzo-p-dioxins, PCDDs) and 135 polychlorinated dibenzofurans (polychloro-dibenzofurans, PCDFS), abbreviated as PCDD/Fs or dioxin. The most well-studied toxic dioxins are 17 homologue isomer monomers (congenor) whose 2-, 3-, 7-, and 8-positions are substituted by chlorine atoms, among which 2,3,7,8-tetrachloro Dibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD) is the most toxic dioxin monomer among all known compounds (oral LD50 is only 0.6μg/kg). Moreover, it also has a variety of toxic effects including extremely strong carcinogenicity (rat liver cancer-causing dose 10pg/g) and environmental endocrine disrupting effects at very low doses. Such substances are neither produced by humans nor have any purpose, but are by-products of combustion and various industrial processes. The main sources of dioxins in the environment are the evaporation caused by the use of chlorophenols for wood preservation and prevention of schistosomiasis, the discharge of incineration industries, the use of defoliants, the preparation of pesticides, the bleaching of paper, and the emission of automobile exhaust[1] ] [6] Solution? Use the UFO to divert people's attention.
@@tedunguent156 Yes, there was a derailment, but some kind of ecological disaster unfolding? That'd be all over the news. Grifters spreading misinfo to grift.
@@TheDudeSama The news outlets did claim from the start that there was a concern about an environmental issue. Then they all went quiet about it. No follow up stories. Nothing. Does that sound right to you? "Grifters?" LOL No need to exaggerate. Small potatoes compared to the REAL story.
@@tedunguent156 If Tim Pool is talking about it on his show, I know right away it's far right conspiracy theory nonsense. Listen to legitimate news sources.
I was born about 25 miles to the southeast of the derailment and have family and friends within 35 miles. The “ Valley “ ( Ohio River Valley) was once heavily industrialized for steel making. The River has finally become cleaner after almost a century of misuse. Now, we are endangering it all over with fracking and accidents.
Where is the National Traffic Safety Board Report (NTSB) in all of this? What did they have to say? After all, this is their turf, their jurisdiction. Any time an issue involving Air, Rail, Water, and Road transportation happens, they're supposed to investigate and issue a report how to make things better so this does not happen. They even have the power to make agencies like the FAA change. If this were related to that "Management process", the NTSB could recommend changes to the rules that the Federal Railroad Administration uses.
Key word ‘preventable’. So much harm in the US is preventable if only people would stop allowing shareholder profits to be the main deciding factor in policy.
If you Google this disaster you can see a lot of deleted posts and whatnot But I think my favorite thing is that if you add in "preventable" or "safety" it has no articles talking about anything but the derailment itself Nothing about the condition of the tracks, nothing about maintenance, huge cover up
This is legendary American freedom of speech. You can only talk about things that don't discredit the government of your state. Strange coincidence, when there is a terrible disaster in Ohio, all the media is filled with news about balloons. I pray for all the poor civilians 🙏🏻 😢
Voted against funding for what? Outside of a few sections of railroads operated by Amtrak, the entire railroad system in the United States is owned by private companies.
Im from Mexico, and right now our capital city is having some similar issues with the metro system. They have been neglecting maintenance to the tracks and trains, and so far there have been 2 major incidents with passengers injured and dying. The metro employees union tried to warn the goverment in advance, but they ignored the warning completely. Now they´re blaming every failure on saboteurs and calling some of the employees, that try to keep everything running using their own means, political agitators.
Ay prueba que fue robo de cables en el metro de cdmx. Aquí fue las corporaciones haciendo todo para agarrar más dinero. Lo mismo que los neoliberales de los partidos conservadores quieren hacer en mexico- mas dinero para sus accionistas sin importar las consecuencias
@@nijin5618 China isn’t having trains full of chemicals derail and doing nothing about it, they’re very willing to punish companies for doing shit like this
Incomplete combustion of vinyl chloride produces dioxins。 Dioxin is an organic compound with strong biological toxicity. Its toxicity is 130 times that of cyanide and 900 times that of arsenic. one of the most dangerous chemicals". And because once it penetrates into the environment, it is difficult to degrade and eliminate naturally, so it is called "the poison of the century". [8] Dioxins generally refer to a group of polychlorinated substituted planar aromatic hydrocarbons with similar structures and physical and chemical properties, belonging to chlorinated oxygen-containing tricyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, including 75 polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins ( polychlorodibenzo-p-dioxins, PCDDs) and 135 polychlorinated dibenzofurans (polychloro-dibenzofurans, PCDFS), abbreviated as PCDD/Fs or dioxin. The most well-studied toxic dioxins are 17 homologue isomer monomers (congenor) whose 2-, 3-, 7-, and 8-positions are substituted by chlorine atoms, among which 2,3,7,8-tetrachloro Dibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD) is the most toxic dioxin monomer among all known compounds (oral LD50 is only 0.6μg/kg). Moreover, it also has a variety of toxic effects including extremely strong carcinogenicity (rat liver cancer-causing dose 10pg/g) and environmental endocrine disrupting effects at very low doses. Such substances are neither produced by humans nor have any purpose, but are by-products of combustion and various industrial processes. The main sources of dioxins in the environment are the evaporation caused by the use of chlorophenols for wood preservation and prevention of schistosomiasis, the discharge of incineration industries, the use of defoliants, the preparation of pesticides, the bleaching of paper, and the emission of automobile exhaust[1] ] [6] Solution? Use the UFO to divert people's attention.
Thank you to you, democracy now, and other creators for covering this. Popped into the comment section of a Tucker Carlson vid covering this and they managed to make this disaster about immigrants somehow. Other corporate media is just straight ignoring it.
Politicians and decision makers don't care since they do not live in the poor or middle class neighborhoods that rail travels through. I live next to trains tracks as it was the only place I could afford. Between the risk of derailment and the constant diesel particulate emissions it will absolutely have an effect on my health either very quickly or over the long term.
Excellent video right to the point. This is exactly why this accident occurred. The government took away the ability of the railroad workers to strike Safety concerns being one of the reasons to strike. But don’t worry they’re from the government and they’re only here to help
Chemical compounds formed during the fire are so-called aerosols. These are distributed in the air layers far over the land and these substances (mutagenic) rain down slowly, penetrate into the groundwater. This takes a really long time! Dioxins, phosgenes, furans, etc. I remember the Sandoy disaster in Basel (Switzerland) in 1986 - the river Rhine was red and all life perished. Several tons of fish, up to the mouth of the North Sea, were destroyed. The city of Basel narrowly escaped disaster. Phosgenes, dioxions etc were released during the fire. Well, the question: How long is it reported and then forgotten? What will be changed as soon as possible in the railway sector in favour of safe rails and train material. Who is responsible for this? America has never been a democracy. America is a 2 party form of government with politicians controlled by industry and Wall Street. I estimate that eliminating this "accident" will cost $2 billion. The first miscarriages and cancer will only increase significantly in a long time and then no culprit will be found. Whoever can spend almost 1 billion on lobbying in Washington determines to be or not to be. Incidentally, extreme hazardous substances continue to criss-cross the states on ancient rails in extra-long freight trains with poor material. The next huge accident is only a matter of time. Maybe in a real big city, who knows. Nothing changes among these 2 parties in the US. By the way: With a sweet smell and maybe a metallic taste in my mouth, I would disappear immediately. Aeration the water is nonsense, first pump via activated carbon filters and special cleaning stages. Well, no matter the bottom of the streams is contaminated and over time it penetrates into the deep layers of groundwater and contaminates the drinking water!
Look up the Vice youtube video from 2014: *The Crude Gamble of Oil by Rail: Bomb Trains* We've been shipping these bombs around by train for well over a decade. We need to stop this craziness.
@@Praisethesunson yeah, an inanimate country that humans gave a name to talks and screws people over. It's not the American government, it's America, right shill?
This is what you call privatizing the profits and socialize the losses. Northfork railroad knows the government will pay the clean up cost, and probably put to the special breaks on the tanker cars that was required under the Obama administration that the union officials got passed back then. Instead of spending three billion puting the special breaks on the tanker cars, they lobbied Congress, got the laws changed and bought back ten billion of their own stocks to maximize profits for share holders, and the companies top brass officials. The middle class tax payers should not pay one penny of clean up cost or upgrading tanker cars break system.
As a rail enthusiast, it's utterly shameful that Norfolk Southern bares the name of a once great railroad like Norfolk and Western and inherited the lines of the other great railroads like the PRR, New York Central and others. That company is such a dumpster fire and they better pay back for their damage,
Corporations / CEO's should be FORCED to keep a proper EMPLOYEE to PROFIT ratio. Corporations should not be allowed to remove money from any population when the are making record breaking profits! Something is very wrong here.
@@arcguardian You have dumb outlooks because you have dumb fallacies about becoming a billionaire. YOU ARE NOT ONE OF THEM. The more they continue with their current patterns, the more it effects you.
Ten years ago I turned only to mainstream media. Four years ago, I turned to only local news. Last week I finally decided that you might only get some facts from real people that make their own videos. This is a scary time.
Hmmm, management processes apparently do not process the management of maintenance work in Northfolk Southern. I think that Northfolk manager just admitted liability. He just stated that it is not management's job to manage maintenance.
It follows the standard practice of management nowadays. Take the most money for the least effort. That's why you have phone chains and trees and find your own shift coverage if you are sick. They do NOT want to actually manage the company, they just want to manage the profit, the rest is the little guys fault. No accountability for the management class, just the worker class. Where have I heard this before......
@@michaelhanson3509 Aye, the same is true in the IT world. Look at the American Airlines CEO in December blaming American Airlines' IT Department for the scheduling disaster that left their entire system dead in the water. They have been told for decades that they needed to invest in infrastructure upgrades, instead they do stock buybacks that artificially inflate their stock prices. It amazes me how so few put two and two together and find four. Stock buybacks were illegal until Uncle Reagan's first term in office. It is almost like there is a criminal organization masquerading as a political party in the US who loves to worship shitty actors.
1:57 this man wasn’t happy with your line of questioning. If you’ve seen the movie Silkwood you’d know to start paying attention to your surroundings. It’s people like you that make America great but don’t let corporate greed find a way to stop you.
They NEED to be held responsible …… this is going to have some really bad long term effects ( also corrupted government officials need to get some heat ).
I live in southeast Texas and I have noticed starting 6 or more months ago that the trains are flying through as if they have no speed limit. Several trains are so long that they have engines towards the back as well as the front I don't see the repair crews hardly any more The amtracks are built for speed and do not carry hazard wastes. It is madness They do seem to keep the dangerous speeds to night time traffic but I think that is so folks will notice it less.
I would be outraged if I didnt have this complete lack of surprise... our rail infrastructure has been crumbling worse than our highway infrastructure for the last 30 years... which is a shame... it is the most efficient way to travel and transport goods across the country...
They teach in many law schools "Profitable Ethics" where the cost of a fine or fall out from an irresponsible event is less than the profits being made. Let that sink in...
They have to have insurance and so the insurance provides new train sets and tax write offs... They pass the cost of the insurance on to the cargo... Keeping a percentage of the insurance bill... So if the bill goes up due to the increase in accidents... The profits go up... The full liabilities of the accident are deferred to emergency funds from the federal and state governments... They are essentially gaming with the public health and safety issues as well as the transportation logistics system... But they increase their profits even with the supply and demand issues because the hedge funds are widely diversified. So every disaster increases profits... Emergency room visits, long term cancer rates, short term emergency hotel stays due to evacuations, supply shortages... It’s all a game...
The railway workers' jobs are slowly changing from safety inspections and maintenance, to ensuring that already wealthy executives continue to get yearly bonuses. If I was part of that union, I would have pushed to reject the deal and strike. I would do everything in my power to prevent those parasites from collecting another god damn cent. Moreover, Norfolk Southern executives have proven themselves dangerously incompetent, and should no longer have stewardship of that line. It should be worker-owned, if you know what I mean.
Congress and the president told rail workers they would be arrested and sent to jail if they went on strike. Workers strike fund might cover days/weeks without pay. Probably can't cover legal costs of mass arrests. Not to mention getting roughed up by police/nat'l guard. Norfolk Southern execs are extremely competent at their jobs, which is making money for the company and themselves. Serving the public was never in their mandate. 100% agree that workers should own the railroad! Question is, how to get there ...
@@miaokuancha2447 Congress and president can suck my balls. I got nothing to lose. Lost most of my retirement in 08, I have to work overtime just to make rent now. Of course, I'm not in that union so the point is moot I guess. It just pisses me off.
@@miaokuancha2447 Also it doesn't take competence to cut corners. Real competence is saving money without compromising safety in a catastrophically moronic way. They are incompetent
The same playbook is used in all critical infrastructure. I have worked for a company that assists hospitals with maintaining accurate architectural drawings and inspection records for fire and life safety code compliance for 12 years now. I see the facility managers losing more and more staff, the financial belt growing ever tighter, and the result is that the level of compliance with national codes falls off year by year. When will we start seeing catastrophe in our healthcare buildings?
My son used to clean rail tanks, and it scared me to death, considering what those tanks carry. He got promoted and doesn't have to clean the tanks now, thank goodness. Until he started working where he does, I thought most of those chemicals were moved by semis.
I live next to a rail line. I have notice the trains are alot harder. Kinda like the wheels are about to fall off. Seriously. I sit on my backporch daily.
I don’t get ‘stopped by Congress’, they can’t just keep protesting? It seems like one of those jobs you need trained people for, and if your trained people don’t work you’re out of luck… plz educate me
Good point. The union never even seriously planned for a strike. I don't know if there's even been a single national rail strike in the hundred years since the Federal Railway Act was passed. The FRA gave the president the power to announce a "cooling off period" during breakdowns in contract negotiations, which then requires both sides to agree to a federal mediation board to hear the dispute and propose a contract. And if either side rejects that contract, it gives Congress the power to unilaterally impose it. The rail unions for the past hundred years have gone into these negotiations expecting in advance that any serious attempts they make to organize strikes will be crushed, so they mostly don't even bother to plan them anymore. Because if they defied the law, they could face draconian punishment by the government, including having assets seized. That said, there's nothing stopping a wildcat strike from happening without approval by the union. But even a wildcat strike would require months and years of strike preparedness being built up by the union. Workers have to be logistically, organizationally, and mentally prepared for it. And if enough workers held the line, they COULD force both the companies and the government to cave to their demands, never mind what some hundred year old strike breaking law says. (Especially if they built worker solidarity across all industries, like the rail workers in the UK are doing now.)
What’s more infuriating is that the railroads ALREADY HAVE AUTOMATED EQUIPMENT to detect faulty wheel bearings when the train is moving. Defect detectors are unfortunately only every 20 miles or more on the railroads, and this accident wouldn’t have occurred if there were more detectors installed. It’s a matter of the railroads being cheap with safety.
@@arcguardian ...In my bout of college, I learned the term "capture": when a regulatory agency has been compromised by the industry it is supposed to regulate. ...At this point, most of our government has been captured by oligarchic concerns. As such, we really need to view the extremely rich as the true power in the country. The actual elected and appointed officials are becoming somewhat secondary. ...I'm just pointing that out, as it necessitates a tactical shift.
Does all this mean the EPA is no longer more powerful than the president? If nobody is gonna take accountability for toxic railroad accidents doesn't that mean we can saw off our catalytic converters off our cars with no repercussions? Can we now run leaded gasoline or red diesel fuel on the highway without commiting a felony? The state and federal response to this disaster tells me it's true that EPA regulations no longer have any meaning
In case your uninformed. One of the chemicals was vinyl chloride, estimated at 750,000+ pounds of it. they decided to burn it, the byproduct of that being burnt is hydrogen chloride. And when hydrogen chloride attaches to the water molecules in the air you get……hydroclhoric acid.
Fines need to be raised heavily so it costs more to make mistakes than it does to pay people for those mistakes to not happen. If they are just paying with this from profit, then they could easily pay for better work ethics instead of continuing to set aside a rainy day fund for regulator fines that still cost less than the manpower to resolve it. Please vote these fossils and lunatics out of congress jfc
"A disaster like this is simply a cost of doing business" - the typical corporate creed. Who or what are these beings that make these anti-human decisions?
I knew a couple railroad workers, and although they didn't mention precision scheduling, their complaints about changes were very much the start. Corporations need to hire people. They need to pay them and respect their health and well being by giving them plenty of time off. No excuses other than these execs are greedy. And our government just allowed it when we really can't afford to have things gall apart if we want to get our radicalization issue under control.
@@yourmomsdaddy9130 people are getting caught up in violent groups. Violent hate crimes are on the rise. I don't give two shots about race or political affiliation. People are attacking people more. That is radical behavior. I've been able to tie local behavior to radicalizing messaging in the news. And I've been tracking it for over a decade. Gonna be hard to convince me it's not happening.
The price of cutting corners summed up in both the figurative and literal aspect. But sadly it’s the workers painted to be the bad guys because they ask for living wage and workable conditions. Corporate Greed is rampant in America and we need to ensure we elect politicians that won’t be bought and neuter any law that allows corporations to “purchase” their preferred rep via campaign funding (Looking at you Citizens United)
this problem is the same in Canada. The left/liberal leaning parties that once fought for human rights, environmental rights, worker rights have ALL been deceptively destroyed by who knows what. Now these parties fight for racial and sexual fantasies only. Im damn sure that the capitalists infiltrated the left and reduced them to a movement of freaks. Now theres hardly any fight for the rights of the citizens and workers anymore. Its well past time to fix matters. capitalists will run over anything that provides zero resistance. Especially when it comes to blue collar working class people... the railroads in Canada are running maximum profits on trains that are growing much greater in length. i seen one last week with 2 locomotives in the center of the procession. have never seen a train this long and most likely, extremely heavy ever in our region. CN is making Bill Gates a very wealthy on top of his wealth man
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. Psalms 37:1
I'm from Ohio and have studied policy and environmental issues my adult life in academics, non profit, and government. I really think this is the chemical Chernobyl.
OK. Can you refer me to an article pitched to a numpty as to how bad the stuff spewing out is?
Use title, site, date, if you can. UA-cam removes post with exterior links.
@W1erdThOughts I'd look at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and the US EPAs fact sheets on vinyl chloride. Should be one of the first results and summarizes it pretty well in layman terms. In short, I'd say a large amount of people will experience cancer, respiratory, eye, throat, mouth, nervous and circulatory issues.
但它不会像切尔诺贝利一样被很好的处理
@@theuscivicsnerd7070 you are so right on what your saying. I heard that ohio river is now bad and fish are popping up dead. Peoples pets are dying. And they are going through peoples homes looking for poison gases. This will spread across the eastern states. People need to film anything they see wrong with water animals plants..
Bhopal would like a word with you (Chemical leak in India that killed thousands). But it's the same shit. If everything was regulated even half as strictly as nuclear we would have basically zero derailments and industrial accidents.
Wow. A local guy with a small UA-cam channel just gave me more info than the mainstream media has since the accident occurred. In less than 3 minutes. Great work, sir. Keep ‘em coming.
Agreed
Agreed
I agree also... And you know, all the associated press and news media, don't want to keep you informed... they just want your preference to make rating.
@@LuisGLenero1369 Absolutely. It has become the parlance for our time.
@@LuisGLenero1369 All bought and controlled since 1999
It is genuinely despair-inducing that these CEOs and politicians can just keep doing everything openly to make people's lives worse, and not only are they getting away with it but they've convinced a good portion of folks that it's in their best interests.
We have to make their lives worse too then
@@Troonielicious…Please believe me on this…YES Railroad Management and politicians (usually from the democratic side of the aisle) ALONG with the Labor Unions, ie Brotherhood of Railway Carmen (BRC) among others, who are deep in the pockets of democrats are all in this together…I post this as a 34 year veteran of the NS mechanical dept. who took early retirement from an on the job injury to cover over the keeping of defective boxcars found from inspections from going into Chicago’s repair facility because of the Carmen’s Union’s attempt to keep their members in Chicago from scrutiny at the point of interchange and to smooth things along from the company to “keep things moving along without delay)…thanks to my FELA attorney’s digging this was uncovered and brought into the light of day…railroad employees will know about the Federal Employees Liability Act (FELA) when dealing with the railroad and on the job injuries (it’s a pretty stressful procedure)…thankfully the truth came out…bottom line, NEVER trust the railroad OR the democrat controlled Labor Unions to EVER be forthcoming! And I MEAN NEVER-EVER…they are lying crooks all…that just my thoughts and opinion on the matter!
When you fund the social discourse political party and then the voters who are all suffering from this accident would rather hate each other than realize that it affects them both you have spent your money well ... Keep the peasants fighting amongst themselves and you then have total control
"The more CEOs save money on things like wages and maintenance costs, the more jobs they can create... It's trickle-down economics..." - Boomers who use ellipses for no good reason.
@@the_travelingbreeze so your in favor of low wages and high profit
"America is NOT a country, it's a BUSINESS." One of my favorite lines from a movie; Killing Them Softly.
I am saddened by what happened to the people of Ohio. The danger of poison gas cannot be ignored, but the government does not seem to care
@cincityohio Yes, and that's why people need to take this seriously. If gas is not properly handled, it's not just one state that will be at risk. Food and water will be contaminated, and people's health will be at risk.
@cincityohio I wouldn't drink the water or bath in it from the OH River until some time has past, chemicals to make plastic are certainly carcinogens
I agree. And in the video when the one question was asked, Devine just stood there like a speechless, feeble old man.
The media is not covering this at all. So sad and absolutely infuriating!!! Thank you for putting this together.
I see this every day at my job..I don't work for the railroad , but a corporate owned automotive repair company...Constantly overturning staff zero management consistency...Then there's the equipment repair and replacement schedule , which is ridiculous...If you know anything about shop equipment , it doesn't know it has a breakdown schedule..Nothing gets changed until someone gets hurt or a customers car gets damaged...Profit before safety always....
Aerospace too
Medical too. This is happening in all jobs, no one or almost no one cares about quality anymore, only profit. I don't know what's going on in the world
@@coquiluz6979 I know what is going on, evil is taking over.
@@coquiluz6979 is scary knowing someday I will need heart surgery.
@@coquiluz6979 I do. China has been infiltrating our country for decades. China wants to turn out country into Shit. And they are doing it. We are willing to buy their Chinese made junk that breaks in a week or month and then we go a buy more Chinese made junk
Fact the mainstream isn't covering it tells you something is up.
Just saw this guy on breaking points. Very knowledgeable. Grateful for independent journalists that live in the communities they are reporting on. Keep it up!!
This is what deregulation and worker contempt looks like. Time to change our system.
This is what not being accountable looks like. If there was accountability, regulation wouldn't even be a factor.
i agree, there's zero accountability in this current system. burn it all and make a new one from scratch that isn't influenced by money hungry executives from wall street. BAN LOBBYING
not to change，back to 9/11 the public management ability，no so many messy social divisons
@@bloodyblase3074 banning lobbying is a form of regulation. The distinction between regulation and accountability are not clear in these comments.
And while we're at it, SCRUB UA-cam employee roster of its CIA and FBI censor-spooks.
WOW!! SUCH DISREGARD FOR ALL HUMANITY.
Average crimes in Ohio:
I'm from Brazil and this is sad, sad news indeed. We had an envirinmental disaster that killd thousands of people as a dam not too far away from where I live collapsed and flooded the residential areas in the path of the water that happened for the same reasons described here and so far 0 CEO's have been made accountable. If you're interested, search for "Brumadinho dam Vale do rio Doce"
Oops, I guess it was 270 people confirmed dead.
What is Humanity though?
This is a perfect example of how venture capital is cannibalizing everything on every level in search of profit
Why isn't the Democrat president Joe Biden stepping up and doing his job?
He needs to be kicked out of office.
Which is why ending capitalism is the end goal.
Socialism isn't any better. It's far worse. No motivation to even try and get ahead. Venture Capital is just a big bank work around.
@@VeteranVandal ending free market Capatalism is the end goal of venture Capital monopolistic stakeholder Capitalism
@@Miami1991 that they basically already did.
This needs to be upvoted more. It's being covered up.
Well said! Spread the word! I’m a firm believer that exposure and educating the general public on the causes of these problems will help hard working railroaders voices get heard on the issues they deal with in the industry. Hopefully then changes can be made…
Their paying the price???? NO!!! Everyone is going to pay the price with poisoned food and waters so who did this?
MPU is absolutely on point. Hedge Fund Managers need to be held accountable
Please explain why you think hedge fund managers are responsible for railroad derailments, which have been steadily declining for the last 20 years. If anything, the hedge fund managers have probably been applying pressure on the railroads to improve their safety.
@@ArtStoneUS No, they've been applying pressure to get more profits. Which means less maintenance, less safety, and believe me they will have the best lawyers to try to get out of having to pay a dime to anyone for this disaster.
@@SelfProclaimedEmperor train derailments do not create more profits.
@@ArtStoneUS sure they do, the train cars are insured, it's easier money than trying to sell or dispose of the contents
Well this explains why the news is focused on the balloons.
Knew something like this would happen when I saw the scheduling for all the railroad job postings I read, wanted you to be on call even at 4 am and to work weird and rotating hours, I wonder what happens when all your workers are tired and working overtime because it’s cheaper not to let them see their families then to pay, equip and insure more employees
They receive 4 damn sick days off a year and it’s federal vacation days! This is the saddest federal job I ever have seen!!
@@stefaroopinkie They work for the railroad, not the federal government Trumpy.
@@boristheamerican2938 stupid response. This IS NOT POLITICAL. It’s worker rites. Every time they try to strike, damn government over rules it. Railroader & truckers our our backbone of moving goodies we need to support them better. I hate both parties, the whole government s*#ks A##!!!
@@stefaroopinkie Republicans against workers rights, democrats for workers rights. Learn something.
@@boristheamerican2938 it’s too bad you still refer to the past. If you new anything about the current political parties- both are shit and you should never believe either one.
What is so scary is, I am in Mercer county Pennsylvania and we had a cloud pushed through this area,from the derailment site.
NS needs to pay for what they did to all of us.
Incomplete combustion of vinyl chloride produces dioxins。
Dioxin is an organic compound with strong biological toxicity. Its toxicity is 130 times that of cyanide and 900 times that of arsenic. one of the most dangerous chemicals". And because once it penetrates into the environment, it is difficult to degrade and eliminate naturally, so it is called "the poison of the century". [8]
Dioxins generally refer to a group of polychlorinated substituted planar aromatic hydrocarbons with similar structures and physical and chemical properties, belonging to chlorinated oxygen-containing tricyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, including 75 polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins ( polychlorodibenzo-p-dioxins, PCDDs) and 135 polychlorinated dibenzofurans (polychloro-dibenzofurans, PCDFS), abbreviated as PCDD/Fs or dioxin. The most well-studied toxic dioxins are 17 homologue isomer monomers (congenor) whose 2-, 3-, 7-, and 8-positions are substituted by chlorine atoms, among which 2,3,7,8-tetrachloro Dibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD) is the most toxic dioxin monomer among all known compounds (oral LD50 is only 0.6μg/kg). Moreover, it also has a variety of toxic effects including extremely strong carcinogenicity (rat liver cancer-causing dose 10pg/g) and environmental endocrine disrupting effects at very low doses. Such substances are neither produced by humans nor have any purpose, but are by-products of combustion and various industrial processes. The main sources of dioxins in the environment are the evaporation caused by the use of chlorophenols for wood preservation and prevention of schistosomiasis, the discharge of incineration industries, the use of defoliants, the preparation of pesticides, the bleaching of paper, and the emission of automobile exhaust[1] ] [6]
Solution? Use the UFO to divert people's attention.
true but u breath toxins in everyday cant prove it was from that to be honest
They want. Under capitalism, human life and well being is valuless.
Did you all even get any warning about what was going on?
@@eljefeamericano4308 zero notifications at least in this county.
Violence will be the only language these people will understand.
Great reporting from More Perfect Union. Tragic that its as needed as it is
Thank you for reporting this! 😊💕
As far as I know, not alot of news media are talking about this. 😶
Why would they talk about misinformation? They're professional outlets, not far right liars like this dude.
@@TheDudeSama
So, are you saying that there was no derailment? No toxic chemical spill? What "misinformation"? That this "accident" was unavoidable?
@@tedunguent156 Yes, there was a derailment, but some kind of ecological disaster unfolding? That'd be all over the news. Grifters spreading misinfo to grift.
@@TheDudeSama The news outlets did claim from the start that there was a concern about an environmental issue. Then they all went quiet about it. No follow up stories. Nothing. Does that sound right to you? "Grifters?" LOL No need to exaggerate. Small potatoes compared to the REAL story.
@@tedunguent156 If Tim Pool is talking about it on his show, I know right away it's far right conspiracy theory nonsense. Listen to legitimate news sources.
I was born about 25 miles to the southeast of the derailment and have family and friends within 35 miles. The “ Valley “ ( Ohio River Valley) was once heavily industrialized for steel making. The River has finally become cleaner after almost a century of misuse. Now, we are endangering it all over with fracking and accidents.
Keep exposing them 🤬
Where is the National Traffic Safety Board Report (NTSB) in all of this? What did they have to say? After all, this is their turf, their jurisdiction. Any time an issue involving Air, Rail, Water, and Road transportation happens, they're supposed to investigate and issue a report how to make things better so this does not happen. They even have the power to make agencies like the FAA change. If this were related to that "Management process", the NTSB could recommend changes to the rules that the Federal Railroad Administration uses.
Key word ‘preventable’. So much harm in the US is preventable if only people would stop allowing shareholder profits to be the main deciding factor in policy.
It was recently reported that Union Pacific is spending more on stock buybacks than on its employees
True
If you Google this disaster you can see a lot of deleted posts and whatnot
But I think my favorite thing is that if you add in "preventable" or "safety" it has no articles talking about anything but the derailment itself
Nothing about the condition of the tracks, nothing about maintenance, huge cover up
This is legendary American freedom of speech. You can only talk about things that don't discredit the government of your state.
Strange coincidence, when there is a terrible disaster in Ohio, all the media is filled with news about balloons.
I pray for all the poor civilians 🙏🏻 😢
People are trying to say what this is and it all gets deleted and ghosted
The congress members that voted against funding and maintenance should be imprisoned
Voted against funding for what? Outside of a few sections of railroads operated by Amtrak, the entire railroad system in the United States is owned by private companies.
Im from Mexico, and right now our capital city is having some similar issues with the metro system. They have been neglecting maintenance to the tracks and trains, and so far there have been 2 major incidents with passengers injured and dying. The metro employees union tried to warn the goverment in advance, but they ignored the warning completely.
Now they´re blaming every failure on saboteurs and calling some of the employees, that try to keep everything running using their own means, political agitators.
all goverment the same virtue，China too
Ay prueba que fue robo de cables en el metro de cdmx. Aquí fue las corporaciones haciendo todo para agarrar más dinero. Lo mismo que los neoliberales de los partidos conservadores quieren hacer en mexico- mas dinero para sus accionistas sin importar las consecuencias
@@nijin5618 China isn’t having trains full of chemicals derail and doing nothing about it, they’re very willing to punish companies for doing shit like this
You don't know. All we know is when we here stories about a dairy farmer being executed because someone got listeria.
@@dirtydirtyshisno7284 China：基本禁止远跨省跨市运输氯乙烯，由各个有需求的化工厂自产自用；
中国官员遇到突发事件处理的好，容易晋升。反之丢官
Desde México 🇲🇽 fuerte abrazo a Ohio, fuerza!
Oh, my God. No wonder there's been all these reports of unmanned blimps being shot down😢
Yep. distractions for sure!
Incomplete combustion of vinyl chloride produces dioxins。
Dioxin is an organic compound with strong biological toxicity. Its toxicity is 130 times that of cyanide and 900 times that of arsenic. one of the most dangerous chemicals". And because once it penetrates into the environment, it is difficult to degrade and eliminate naturally, so it is called "the poison of the century". [8]
Dioxins generally refer to a group of polychlorinated substituted planar aromatic hydrocarbons with similar structures and physical and chemical properties, belonging to chlorinated oxygen-containing tricyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, including 75 polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins ( polychlorodibenzo-p-dioxins, PCDDs) and 135 polychlorinated dibenzofurans (polychloro-dibenzofurans, PCDFS), abbreviated as PCDD/Fs or dioxin. The most well-studied toxic dioxins are 17 homologue isomer monomers (congenor) whose 2-, 3-, 7-, and 8-positions are substituted by chlorine atoms, among which 2,3,7,8-tetrachloro Dibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD) is the most toxic dioxin monomer among all known compounds (oral LD50 is only 0.6μg/kg). Moreover, it also has a variety of toxic effects including extremely strong carcinogenicity (rat liver cancer-causing dose 10pg/g) and environmental endocrine disrupting effects at very low doses. Such substances are neither produced by humans nor have any purpose, but are by-products of combustion and various industrial processes. The main sources of dioxins in the environment are the evaporation caused by the use of chlorophenols for wood preservation and prevention of schistosomiasis, the discharge of incineration industries, the use of defoliants, the preparation of pesticides, the bleaching of paper, and the emission of automobile exhaust[1] ] [6]
Solution? Use the UFO to divert people's attention.
That s right
Thank you to you, democracy now, and other creators for covering this.
Popped into the comment section of a Tucker Carlson vid covering this and they managed to make this disaster about immigrants somehow.
Other corporate media is just straight ignoring it.
Politicians and decision makers don't care since they do not live in the poor or middle class neighborhoods that rail travels through. I live next to trains tracks as it was the only place I could afford. Between the risk of derailment and the constant diesel particulate emissions it will absolutely have an effect on my health either very quickly or over the long term.
They care if their constituents care enough to hold them accountable. FIFY.
They used to run those chemicals through pipelines. So remember who shut them down.
@@KB-ke3fi uh no, they *never* run vinyl chloride through pipeline.
Excellent video right to the point. This is exactly why this accident occurred. The government took away the ability of the railroad workers to strike Safety concerns being one of the reasons to strike. But don’t worry they’re from the government and they’re only here to help
Chemical compounds formed during the fire are so-called aerosols. These are distributed in the air layers far over the land and these substances (mutagenic) rain down slowly, penetrate into the groundwater. This takes a really long time! Dioxins, phosgenes, furans, etc. I remember the Sandoy disaster in Basel (Switzerland) in 1986 - the river Rhine was red and all life perished. Several tons of fish, up to the mouth of the North Sea, were destroyed. The city of Basel narrowly escaped disaster. Phosgenes, dioxions etc were released during the fire. Well, the question: How long is it reported and then forgotten? What will be changed as soon as possible in the railway sector in favour of safe rails and train material. Who is responsible for this? America has never been a democracy. America is a 2 party form of government with politicians controlled by industry and Wall Street. I estimate that eliminating this "accident" will cost $2 billion. The first miscarriages and cancer will only increase significantly in a long time and then no culprit will be found. Whoever can spend almost 1 billion on lobbying in Washington determines to be or not to be. Incidentally, extreme hazardous substances continue to criss-cross the states on ancient rails in extra-long freight trains with poor material. The next huge accident is only a matter of time. Maybe in a real big city, who knows. Nothing changes among these 2 parties in the US. By the way: With a sweet smell and maybe a metallic taste in my mouth, I would disappear immediately. Aeration the water is nonsense, first pump via activated carbon filters and special cleaning stages. Well, no matter the bottom of the streams is contaminated and over time it penetrates into the deep layers of groundwater and contaminates the drinking water!
Look up the Vice youtube video from 2014:
*The Crude Gamble of Oil by Rail: Bomb Trains*
We've been shipping these bombs around by train for well over a decade. We need to stop this craziness.
How about instead we just ignore the problems while we extract ever more short term profit?
-America
@@Praisethesunson yeah, an inanimate country that humans gave a name to talks and screws people over. It's not the American government, it's America, right shill?
This is what you call privatizing the profits and socialize the losses. Northfork railroad knows the government will pay the clean up cost, and probably put to the special breaks on the tanker cars that was required under the Obama administration that the union officials got passed back then. Instead of spending three billion puting the special breaks on the tanker cars, they lobbied Congress, got the laws changed and bought back ten billion of their own stocks to maximize profits for share holders, and the companies top brass officials. The middle class tax payers should not pay one penny of clean up cost or upgrading tanker cars break system.
As a rail enthusiast, it's utterly shameful that Norfolk Southern bares the name of a once great railroad like Norfolk and Western and inherited the lines of the other great railroads like the PRR, New York Central and others. That company is such a dumpster fire and they better pay back for their damage,
Thank you so much for this!!
Outstanding report. Thank-you.
Prayers for the People, Animals, Birds, Aquatic Life, and for the Land, the Water and The Air.
Corporations / CEO's should be FORCED to keep a proper EMPLOYEE to PROFIT ratio.
Corporations should not be allowed to remove money from any population when the are making record breaking profits!
Something is very wrong here.
That's a dumb standard. They shouldn't be cutting corners when it comes to safety, aside from that, they can do what they want with their money.
@@arcguardian You have dumb outlooks because you have dumb fallacies about becoming a billionaire. YOU ARE NOT ONE OF THEM. The more they continue with their current patterns, the more it effects you.
Ten years ago I turned only to mainstream media.
Four years ago, I turned to only local news.
Last week I finally decided that you might only get some facts from real people that make their own videos.
This is a scary time.
Hmmm, management processes apparently do not process the management of maintenance work in Northfolk Southern. I think that Northfolk manager just admitted liability. He just stated that it is not management's job to manage maintenance.
It follows the standard practice of management nowadays. Take the most money for the least effort. That's why you have phone chains and trees and find your own shift coverage if you are sick. They do NOT want to actually manage the company, they just want to manage the profit, the rest is the little guys fault. No accountability for the management class, just the worker class. Where have I heard this before......
@@michaelhanson3509 Aye, the same is true in the IT world. Look at the American Airlines CEO in December blaming American Airlines' IT Department for the scheduling disaster that left their entire system dead in the water. They have been told for decades that they needed to invest in infrastructure upgrades, instead they do stock buybacks that artificially inflate their stock prices. It amazes me how so few put two and two together and find four. Stock buybacks were illegal until Uncle Reagan's first term in office. It is almost like there is a criminal organization masquerading as a political party in the US who loves to worship shitty actors.
I'm more worried about why workers aren't allowed to strike. Are we no longer a democracy? Is this a communist government now?
And by "manage maintenance" us #citizens don't consider it managed if the program is #BreakdownManagement .
Nobody wants excuses, we want solutions.
Great coverage and journalism. What a horrible and preventable disaster
1:57 this man wasn’t happy with your line of questioning. If you’ve seen the movie Silkwood you’d know to start paying attention to your surroundings. It’s people like you that make America great but don’t let corporate greed find a way to stop you.
They NEED to be held responsible …… this is going to have some really bad long term effects ( also corrupted government officials need to get some heat ).
Yeah they'll be held responsible by people on UA-cam saying they should be held responsible. 👍
Great coverage dude and going straight for the juggler! Take care and blessings for the region!
I live in southeast Texas and I have noticed starting 6 or more months ago that the trains are flying through as if they have no speed limit. Several trains are so long that they have engines towards the back as well as the front I don't see the repair crews hardly any more The amtracks are built for speed and do not carry hazard wastes. It is madness They do seem to keep the dangerous speeds to night time traffic but I think that is so folks will notice it less.
A caboose is in the back. Pretty standard.
Thank you for making this video. You’re asking all the right questions! We need to pressure them into confessing the truth!!
It use to be that CEOs of transit companies went to jail for disasters like this.
blame the stupid government system
Name one CEO ever jailed for a disaster. I'll wait for your nonfactual claim.
The saddest part is the amount of insurance that will be paid to the RR but only pennies on the $ paid to those who file a claim.
We also need to talk about the black reporter that was arrested for trying to report the truth. America is a fascist country!
I would be outraged if I didnt have this complete lack of surprise... our rail infrastructure has been crumbling worse than our highway infrastructure for the last 30 years... which is a shame... it is the most efficient way to travel and transport goods across the country...
wow, that was a great insight, I wonder why MSM doesn't have you on to talk about this more.
The wallstreet investors are friends of the media owners, duh. ✡️
And that folks is the way it is! “America is not a country, it is a business”. Get used to it🙏
This is just B.S.!! 😡🤬😡🤬
I feel SORRY for All the Workers!!
They teach in many law schools "Profitable Ethics" where the cost of a fine or fall out from an irresponsible event is less than the profits being made. Let that sink in...
When you see this reality as it is, you know that all these things happen on purpose and there is no coincidence.
Americans would rather say their government did it on purpose than to say they are being led by incompetence.
They have to have insurance and so the insurance provides new train sets and tax write offs...
They pass the cost of the insurance on to the cargo...
Keeping a percentage of the insurance bill...
So if the bill goes up due to the increase in accidents...
The profits go up...
The full liabilities of the accident are deferred to emergency funds from the federal and state governments...
They are essentially gaming with the public health and safety issues as well as the transportation logistics system...
But they increase their profits even with the supply and demand issues because the hedge funds are widely diversified.
So every disaster increases profits...
Emergency room visits, long term cancer rates, short term emergency hotel stays due to evacuations, supply shortages...
It’s all a game...
Could you guys not start with the conspiracy bullshit?
@@dboot8886 Americans would rather believe the world is conspiring against them, than believe their country is ass.
It's a win-win for them (the ultra-wealthy elites)... they make a killing while killing off the poor who they despise.
The railway workers' jobs are slowly changing from safety inspections and maintenance, to ensuring that already wealthy executives continue to get yearly bonuses. If I was part of that union, I would have pushed to reject the deal and strike. I would do everything in my power to prevent those parasites from collecting another god damn cent. Moreover, Norfolk Southern executives have proven themselves dangerously incompetent, and should no longer have stewardship of that line. It should be worker-owned, if you know what I mean.
Congress and the president told rail workers they would be arrested and sent to jail if they went on strike. Workers strike fund might cover days/weeks without pay. Probably can't cover legal costs of mass arrests. Not to mention getting roughed up by police/nat'l guard. Norfolk Southern execs are extremely competent at their jobs, which is making money for the company and themselves. Serving the public was never in their mandate.
100% agree that workers should own the railroad! Question is, how to get there ...
@@miaokuancha2447 Congress and president can suck my balls. I got nothing to lose. Lost most of my retirement in 08, I have to work overtime just to make rent now. Of course, I'm not in that union so the point is moot I guess. It just pisses me off.
@@miaokuancha2447 Also it doesn't take competence to cut corners. Real competence is saving money without compromising safety in a catastrophically moronic way. They are incompetent
@@NonEuclideanTacoCannon Heard.
@@NonEuclideanTacoCannon sir, you are correct!
The same playbook is used in all critical infrastructure. I have worked for a company that assists hospitals with maintaining accurate architectural drawings and inspection records for fire and life safety code compliance for 12 years now. I see the facility managers losing more and more staff, the financial belt growing ever tighter, and the result is that the level of compliance with national codes falls off year by year. When will we start seeing catastrophe in our healthcare buildings?
I hope they all get hold accountable
Thankyou for your great reporting
I had to warn CSX about a void under a train track on a bridge a few weeks ago. You look over and you could see to the other side under the rail.
That is scary
My son used to clean rail tanks, and it scared me to death, considering what those tanks carry. He got promoted and doesn't have to clean the tanks now, thank goodness. Until he started working where he does, I thought most of those chemicals were moved by semis.
Thats horrible to put the blame or make their employee the fall guy on this disaster - SUE THE RAIL CO. !!!
Great job reporting! We need hundreds of thousands more people just like you …Bravo!
Holy fk it happened on 3 February and I just knew about it, now I know why whole media government focus on that spy balloons😂😂😂😂
Great video, this is knowledge that must be heard. Thank you for your work.
I live next to a rail line. I have notice the trains are alot harder. Kinda like the wheels are about to fall off. Seriously. I sit on my backporch daily.
same i noticed that the are also much longer also
I don’t get ‘stopped by Congress’, they can’t just keep protesting? It seems like one of those jobs you need trained people for, and if your trained people don’t work you’re out of luck… plz educate me
Good point. The union never even seriously planned for a strike. I don't know if there's even been a single national rail strike in the hundred years since the Federal Railway Act was passed.
The FRA gave the president the power to announce a "cooling off period" during breakdowns in contract negotiations, which then requires both sides to agree to a federal mediation board to hear the dispute and propose a contract. And if either side rejects that contract, it gives Congress the power to unilaterally impose it.
The rail unions for the past hundred years have gone into these negotiations expecting in advance that any serious attempts they make to organize strikes will be crushed, so they mostly don't even bother to plan them anymore. Because if they defied the law, they could face draconian punishment by the government, including having assets seized.
That said, there's nothing stopping a wildcat strike from happening without approval by the union. But even a wildcat strike would require months and years of strike preparedness being built up by the union. Workers have to be logistically, organizationally, and mentally prepared for it. And if enough workers held the line, they COULD force both the companies and the government to cave to their demands, never mind what some hundred year old strike breaking law says. (Especially if they built worker solidarity across all industries, like the rail workers in the UK are doing now.)
That last line was chilling. This current government needs to be overthrown
It didn't just blow up, the authorities tried to do a control burn on all the chemicals and it completely got out of control.
The bastards in government and top CEOs must face the capital punishment for this.
You see how Mike Dewine reacted to the question which was directed at him.
Yeah the Democrats. They closed the pipelines they used to run it through safely.
@@KB-ke3fi nobody send chemicals dowh the pipe dude. It's just too unstable to flow.
Thank you you did a very good job of getting people informed
What’s more infuriating is that the railroads ALREADY HAVE AUTOMATED EQUIPMENT to detect faulty wheel bearings when the train is moving. Defect detectors are unfortunately only every 20 miles or more on the railroads, and this accident wouldn’t have occurred if there were more detectors installed. It’s a matter of the railroads being cheap with safety.
Oh _wow._
Yeah. I really think we need either draconian regulation of the railways or nationalization.
@@grmpEqweer or just hold ppl accountable.
@@arcguardian
...In my bout of college, I learned the term "capture": when a regulatory agency has been compromised by the industry it is supposed to regulate.
...At this point, most of our government has been captured by oligarchic concerns.
As such, we really need to view the extremely rich as the true power in the country. The actual elected and appointed officials are becoming somewhat secondary.
...I'm just pointing that out, as it necessitates a tactical shift.
Time to sue these railroads
I wish there was a video of subway surfers at the bottom so I could pay more attention
Thank you because these are the things citizens of this country need to know
Does all this mean the EPA is no longer more powerful than the president?
If nobody is gonna take accountability for toxic railroad accidents doesn't that mean we can saw off our catalytic converters off our cars with no repercussions? Can we now run leaded gasoline or red diesel fuel on the highway without commiting a felony?
The state and federal response to this disaster tells me it's true that EPA regulations no longer have any meaning
Believe that none of this was a mistake
In case your uninformed. One of the chemicals was vinyl chloride, estimated at 750,000+ pounds of it. they decided to burn it, the byproduct of that being burnt is hydrogen chloride. And when hydrogen chloride attaches to the water molecules in the air you get……hydroclhoric acid.
Fines need to be raised heavily so it costs more to make mistakes than it does to pay people for those mistakes to not happen. If they are just paying with this from profit, then they could easily pay for better work ethics instead of continuing to set aside a rainy day fund for regulator fines that still cost less than the manpower to resolve it.
Please vote these fossils and lunatics out of congress jfc
This is the first time I've ever sided with the unions. The management is despicable and awful.
Vey sharp and insightful report! Boost!
It’s truly sad how much corners companies cut nowadays just to make an extra buck, nothing gets done right nowadays because cheap is better
Great video.
"A disaster like this is simply a cost of doing business" - the typical corporate creed. Who or what are these beings that make these anti-human decisions?
I knew a couple railroad workers, and although they didn't mention precision scheduling, their complaints about changes were very much the start. Corporations need to hire people. They need to pay them and respect their health and well being by giving them plenty of time off. No excuses other than these execs are greedy. And our government just allowed it when we really can't afford to have things gall apart if we want to get our radicalization issue under control.
We have a radicalization issue? Could you explain?
@@yourmomsdaddy9130 people are getting caught up in violent groups. Violent hate crimes are on the rise. I don't give two shots about race or political affiliation. People are attacking people more. That is radical behavior.
I've been able to tie local behavior to radicalizing messaging in the news. And I've been tracking it for over a decade. Gonna be hard to convince me it's not happening.
Excellent, thank you!
This is how you cut to the chase 👏🏾👏👏🏻👏🏿👏🏼👏🏽
Excellent video
QC is the first thing to go when pushing work load.
Just discovered this channel through a related channel. Awesome work.
The price of cutting corners summed up in both the figurative and literal aspect. But sadly it’s the workers painted to be the bad guys because they ask for living wage and workable conditions. Corporate Greed is rampant in America and we need to ensure we elect politicians that won’t be bought and neuter any law that allows corporations to “purchase” their preferred rep via campaign funding (Looking at you Citizens United)
this problem is the same in Canada. The left/liberal leaning parties that once fought for human rights, environmental rights, worker rights have ALL been deceptively destroyed by who knows what. Now these parties fight for racial and sexual fantasies only. Im damn sure that the capitalists infiltrated the left and reduced them to a movement of freaks. Now theres hardly any fight for the rights of the citizens and workers anymore. Its well past time to fix matters. capitalists will run over anything that provides zero resistance. Especially when it comes to blue collar working class people... the railroads in Canada are running maximum profits on trains that are growing much greater in length. i seen one last week with 2 locomotives in the center of the procession. have never seen a train this long and most likely, extremely heavy ever in our region. CN is making Bill Gates a very wealthy on top of his wealth man
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Psalms 37:1
its over
This vid earned a sub. Appreciated
Thanks for this report.
And like Ice Cube said awhile ago: "NOW WHAT?! NOW WHAT?!"
We are doomed.
@Lind Morn the solution to systemic corruption is not some retarded ideology
Thank you