Surprisingly unrsuprising. When most Chinese people think laws and regulations are mere suggestions things like this are bound to happen. In 2015 we have idiot Chinese people who let their children crap in a f**king airplane cabin (near the galley) because the two unoccupied bathrooms aren't "big enough." So what's the big deal about storing 70 times the legal amount of a highly dangerous and explosive chemical?
In both cases, IMO, the people should literally be executed. In one case, endangering an entire city, it's obvious. IMO, in the other case, if people are so selfish and anti-social as to willfully expose an enclosed cabin full of strangers to a child's sh1t because they can't bother to be inconvenienced by basic human sanitation, they aren't fit to live.
is bounded to happen; its a fertilizer produced by the million of tons, the same with other hazardous material like pesticide. Safety procedures were violated but people must ask the question: for a highly densed industrial city with some of china's most productive farmland near by, how to handle the technical problem. Bad as its, people should ask some more basic question. Chest beating is less useful as many might think
One might say: Disperse the storage. Then would it means a larger number of potential explosions? Wat about shipping by trucks? Would it endanger high way trafffics?
Most people dont realise its not easy to have one solid blast of over 1000 tons of conventional explosive,particularly non-military stuff like nitrate. Past xpt on large conventional xplosion were all carefully planned with many fuses at different ignition point.Otherwise the initial blast just blows the rest away. I highly suspected if all the nitrate of the tianjin blast had burned.
I think its possible to store large amount of nitrate in small batches and in close proximity as long as they are stored in strong steel silos or underground concrete silos and with quick reaction extinguishing mechanism. But then it'll add to cost to farmers
A lifetime airplane ban and a 5 year stint in a re-education camp should get the point across. The execs who knowingly endangered a whole city with their selfish bullsh1t - firing squad.
a hefty fine, and some jailtime for endangering the public to toxic materials would get the point across. Reeducation camps are the reason why we're in this situation in the first place...
legal limit of x or y chemical and this directly caused all those deaths, the responsible person(s) should be executed, no question. But the couple on the airplane is unfortunately emblematic of a still backward country with a generally poor, rural, redneck culture who do not know how to act civilized. Many millions of Chinese would have to die if what they did on the plane qualifies for capital punishment. I think in their case a lifetime ban on air travel would be more than sufficient to get the point across to both the couple and the rest of China what the consequences of bad behavior are. And now brace for the MBD rage troll post incoming in 3... 2.... 1....
Remind me of 'not in my neighborhood' protest against garbage incineration plants in HK.
Those cyanide containers apparently are sitting in a port area waiting for shipment to overseas or else where in china. Otherwise why tianjin is a port and industrial city?
What I mean by 'guilty' is violation of established procedure/regulation. Possibly cynide and other inflammable materials are stored in the same locality which is very large. (I suspect the real wrong doing was probably storing combustible material and oxidents like nitrogen oxide in close proximity)
