The chinese propaganda agents like Lake8737 are working over time on Liveleak to distract and spread propaganda over the explosion in Taijin. This we know: Army has been called out to stop reporters from reporting on the site and talking to familymembers. Literally thousands of dead bodies litter a 4 block area around the blast zone. Toxic clouds of cyanide and unknown chemicals continue to kill people. Chinese authorities are known for covering up these disasters but something on this scale will be hard to do...
China Scrambles To Hide Toxic Fallout Of Tianjin Chemical Explosion
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/14/2015 07:40 -0400
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Two days after an "apocalyptic" explosion in the port city of Tianjin killed at least 50 people and vaporized a bit of excess auto inventory , Chinese officials are struggling to explain what happened and reassure a nervous public.
The blast - footage of which is reminiscent of a nuclear detonation -
likely stemmed from what The New York times called a "witches brew" of
toxic chemicals warehoused in the industrial zone. That has residents on
edge, as many wonder if the air is safe to breathe. Here's The Times :
They wondered if even the air was safe because of the
smoke, still billowing hours later from vestiges of the inferno, which
destroyed an industrial zone near the port. Many people wore masks.
"Right now, we don't know anything," said Sun Meirong, 52, an
office cleaner who descended 13 flights of stairs with her 1-year-old
grandson after the explosions blew in her apartment windows and front
door.
Questions loomed over the precise reasons the chemicals had
ignited, detonating in frightening fireballs that registered on
earthquake scales, engulfed hundreds of new cars awaiting export and
shattered windows in high-rises a mile away.
At least one chemical known to have been stockpiled at the site, calcium carbide, can emit flammable gases when it becomes wet.
Some outside experts speculated that firefighters, in their effort to
douse the flames, may have inadvertently contributed to the explosions.
"If enough water gets in there, calcium carbide is going to very
quickly decompose," said Chris Weber, president and chief executive of
Dr. Hazmat Inc., a hazardous-chemical consulting concern in Longmont,
Colo. "The most likely and most violent reaction would be the calcium
carbide."
On Thursday afternoon, the site still smoldered as Tianjin
officials, unsure about the nature of the chemicals, let the blaze
extinguish on its own.
According to the Tianjin Tanggu Environmental Monitoring
Station,calcium carbide was one of several toxic industrial chemicals
stored by the company. The others included sodium cyanide, which
can produce hydrogen cyanide, a volatile and flammable liquid; and
toluene diisocyanate, which can also react violently in the presence of
water.
In a statement on Thursday, Greenpeace warned that the chemicals
threatened human health. It said that sodium cyanide, used in mining, is
especially toxic, while toluene diisocyanate, used to make polyurethane
products, is a carcinogen.
With rain forecast for Friday, Greenpeace also warned about the danger of airborne pollutants seeping into groundwater.
Even Chinese media admits that determining exactly what was stored at
Tianjin and thus what may or may not now be in the air and water is at
this point largely impossible. Via Xinhua :
The dangerous chemicals stored in the warehouses that
exploded on Wednesday night in Tianjin Port can not be determined at the
moment, authorities said at a press conference on Friday.
Gao Huaiyou, deputy director of Tianjin's work safety watchdog,
cited major discrepancies between the accounts of company management and
customs, and damage to the company's office as reasons they are unable
to identify the chemicals.
And while it's apparently too early for China to order that the media
stop reporting anything negative about the explosion in Tianjin just as
they did about last month's explosion in equity markets, it does look
like efforts to "clean up" the mess (in a literary sense) have begun.
From People's Daily :
Authorities tasked with marine monitoring announced there
were no hazardous chemicals detected in waters off the blast site in
north China's port city Tianjin on Friday.
A statement from
the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) said major measurement of
seawater composition did not show any anomaly compared with historical
records.
Hazardous
materials such as cyanide and volatile phenol were not detected, while
the variety of zooplankton was not affected either, it added.
The results were
made after 177 seawater samples were taken by local marine monitors in
Tianjin. The SOA said it will update seawater status if major changes
are found.
One would certainly think that any endeavor to determine if chemicals
from the warehouses had leaked into the ocean would be complicated by
the fact that authorities aren't yet sure what chemicals they're trying
to detect, but in any event, we certainnly imagine that the "fallout"
(both literally and figuratively) from Wednesday's disaster will be
difficult to cover up and may show up in a few very unpredictable
places.
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