The most tragically compelling aspects of the Bopal disaster were its predictability and its preventability. Local unions had been warning about leakage dangers for nearly a decade, issuing written warnings & complaints that were uniformly ignored.https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1142551748864860160 …
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In the case of the Sunoco/PES refinery, unions have also been warning for nearly a decade about the incredible hazards of using hydrofluoric acid (HF) processing in refineries.pic.twitter.com/iNa4qOrwi4
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Prior to the Bhopal catastrophe, worker injuries and deaths caused by the release of deadly chemicals by faulty equipment gave strong indication of the increasing danger of mechanical failures on-site.https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1142551749645021186 …
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In the case of the Sunoco/PES refinery, workers have sustained repeated and serious injury due to exposure to HF on-site.pic.twitter.com/4c28xnDWol
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During the sequence of events leading up to Bhopal, Union Carbide blamed chemical exposure accidents and deaths on worker negligence. The Philadelphia refinery owners have also failed to acknowledge or accept blame for HF-related injury.pic.twitter.com/1oaJsVR1P1
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In the case of Bhopal, factory management ignored union warnings, laying off a significant portion of its workforce and reducing shift hours in the year prior to the final catastrophe.https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1142553553996828672 …
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As with the Bhopal plant, the Philadelphia Sunoco/PES refinery management have engaged in significant layoffs despite increasing rates of HF-related worker injury and explicit warnings of the dangers of understaffing from union members and leaders like my friend Jim
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In the two years prior to the Bhopal catastrophe, journalist Rajkumar Keswani published dire warnings about the potential for mass fatalities on an unprecedented scale, including a story titled,"If you don’t understand, you all shall be wiped out." He was called crazy.pic.twitter.com/0GzlHkgFIH
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Journalists have been warning about the incredible risks posed by refinery use of HF processing for at least fourteen years. The Philadelphia Magazine published a cover story about the uniquely large population endangered by Sunoco/PES refinery HF processing back in 2005.pic.twitter.com/Y5cR9ybQBL
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Understaffing and underinvestment in facilities were two of the chief contributing factors to the Bhopal leak. In the course of its recent bankruptcy proceedings, the Sunoco/PES refinery has cut its workforce and cut back on major projects.pic.twitter.com/BKTYa2VUXY
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In the years prior to the disaster, local authorities had warned Union Carbide that the residential population surrounding the plant had skyrocketed, and that this density made use of large amounts of toxic chemicals increasingly hazardous. Union Carbide ignored them.
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Union officials, government authorities, and journalists have repeatedly warned that the PES/Sunoco refinery is uniquely close to a massive and dense urban population, making use of HF processing especially hazardous. The refinery has continued to use HF processing.pic.twitter.com/zeQoIYUAIj
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In the lead up to the final, catastrophic leak, smaller but similar emergencies occurred with increasing severity and alarming frequency. Ditto with the PES/Sunoco refinery.pic.twitter.com/TVkOjUK1LZ
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On the night that 30 tons of poison gas escaped the Bopal plant, plant management repeatedly told local authorities to ignore sirens, wasting critical time that could have been spent letting locals know to shelter in place.https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1142559421664563201 …
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Last night, as massive explosions repeatedly rocked the City of Philadelphia, the refinery gave the local population and media outlets no indication that explosions had occurred at the Unit 433, the processing unit containing massive amounts of deadly HF.pic.twitter.com/oqyc7wZlTL
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In Bhopal, when sirens finally sounded, residents had no idea that the safest option was to shelter in place. In Philadelphia, residents took to their roofs to watch the fireworks. When the sirens finally went off, many initially thought they were evacuation sirens.pic.twitter.com/OgiRqaH7V7
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Some Philadelphians reported it taking as long as 8 hours to discover that they were (or by that point, had been) supposed to shelter in place.https://twitter.com/HughE_Dillon/status/1142455150705041408 …
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In Bhopal, Union Carbide's first and last impulse was to cover their ass, minimizing reports of harm and denying responsibility. In Philadelphia, refinery management almost immediately claimed that the explosions were safe, clean-burning butane.https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1142568845057699840 …
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Even as successive explosions at the PES/Sunoco refinery fired large pieces of debris into the air above HF processing units, endangering containment, the refinery declined to warn the press or the public of the potential for deadly HF leaks.https://twitter.com/TraaNow/status/1142289476619776001 …
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As with Bhopal, it would be nearly two hours before the public would be alerted. Internal PES/Sunoco refinery sirens began to sound after the first explosion occurred, at almost exactly 4:00 am. Public sirens didn't start until 5:30 am.https://twitter.com/108_Victoria_St/status/1142246057121857536 …
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So the lead up to and immediate response to the Sunoco/PES refinery incident and the Bhopal disaster were disconcertingly similar. As for the toxic gas itself, well... HF is eerily like MIC poison gas in some ways, and worse in others. Part 3 is here:https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1142600308926930949 …
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