Re: Gas Explosion Shakes Texas

In article <43a687a4$0$39401$892e7fe2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
me@xxxxxxxxxxx (Charani) wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:30:25 -0000, Skywise wrote:
>
> > alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan) wrote in
> > news:memo.20051218144530.956G@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> >
>
> >> Or the alternative scenario, and I am not pointing any fingers you
> >> understand, but you do hear these stories of when a business stops being
> >> a profitable concern......well a mysterious fire breaks out and an
> >> insurance claim goes in, and seeing as how certain companies may have
> >> not quite got the outcome they expected in the middle-east, maybe things
> >> are not quite looking so rosy as anticipated. On the other hand there is
> >> that nasty habit some companies have of cutting back on employing
> >> skilled labour to do essential planned maintenance. I do know the
> >> fire-brigade union are kicking up one hell of a stink about the lack of
> >> foam-making equipment on site at Buncefield.
> >
> > "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" - Sigmund Freud
> >
>
> Exactly so.
>
> The oil depot concerned was jointly owned by Texaco and Total. It
> wasn't an unprofitable concern.
>
> The fire brigade union made a lot of statements which the fire
> brigades involved stated were a load of nonsense. The union was out
> to try and make capital from the episode which in turn cast a slur on
> the brigades themselves, ie on their own members. Some union!!
>
> The local fire brigade has stated that they did routine exercises,
> three times a year, alongside their opposite numbers at the oil depot.
> They've stated they were happy with the situation and with the
> equipment available at the site.

Let's put it this way, shall we? I used to work for a certain British
petrochemical giant in South Africa. On site, and it was my responsibility to
maintain it, was a foam plant capable of generating any fire that occurred.

That factory was 11 miles from any houses.

Buncefield sits there on the edge of an industrial estate, and close to houses,
and a Calor Gas plant. Some people should be thanking their lucky stars that it
was not the Calor Gas plant that went up, because burning methane, being heavier
than air, rolls along the ground, and those people in those houses would have
been toast.

Get it yet?



Alan

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