Love Canal and Chernobyl come to mind when one thinks about how the federal government has responded to the disaster that has occurred in East Palestine, Ohio.
For those who may have been off planet when this disaster struck, on February 3rd, a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine. The train was carrying toxic chemicals that began leaking from the rail cars.
On Feb. 6, authorities claimed the need to mitigate a potential explosion from derailed tanker cars by burning the rail cars’ chemicals and conducted a “controlled release burn.”
Vinyl chloride, a carcinogen associated with rare forms of liver, brain and lung cancer is the primary chemical of concern during the controlled release burn. Burning vinyl chloride emits the byproduct dioxin, a bioactive, hormonally toxic chemical that will contaminate the food supply.
The mushroom cloud that resulted from this burn made newscasts worldwide.
The environmental effects are already seeping into the social media channels. This is despite an effort by the federal and state governments to censor any and all news coming out of the area.
First responders and railroad workers are tight-lipped. They were required to sign a non-disclosure agreement prohibiting them from discussing the incident.
The Gateway Pundit noted:
“The local major hospital institute has told all of their employees that they are forbidden to speak out about anything related to this toxic spill. They are not allowed to do interviews, they are not allowed to go on camera, write quotes or comment about anything going on. Experts from the local community have been told, ‘Do not speak, this is not your business this is the business of the federal government, the state government, and the railroad company. They all received emails and work calls. Some of them have inquired about speaking and they were told to keep out of it.”
Why are local people being prevented from speaking? Just what information is being suppressed by the government and the railroad company? Just how bad is this disaster?
The official narrative is that the water and air are “safe.” The response from the EPA to some questions from CNN leaves one wondering.
To say that some of his answers were evasive would likely be the understatement of the year so far. The administration has been extremely slow in responding to what is potentially a major environmental disaster of long lasting proportions.
This gentleman is obviously very concerned about the safety issues since he says, “We’ll put our scientists in when it becomes safe to do so.”
One local farmer says this:
“We need answers. The playbook now in the United States by the Deep State or corporate America or the government is always if you are not allowed to talk about it, it’s probably true. If you are de-platformed, if you are censored, if you are isolated, if you are fired for speaking up, you are probably telling the truth and we learned that every day. Every conspiracy theory that has been unfolded about Covid has been proven to be true.”
How long will it take to get real answers about this disaster?