Steve Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Sue, napalm its a very flammable toxic jelly like substance that is
dropped from aircraft, imagine something that burns 10times hotter and 5
times as long as petrol and your getting there, unfortunately its not
exactly one of the most stable compounds going and 12,000 gallons well, you
can imagine, if you have ever watched a movie about the Vietnam war, were
you see a aircraft fly over and the jungle erupt in flames thats napalm
(evil stuff)
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 6:48 PM
Subject: L&I Napalm Shipment Held in Kansas
>Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>Can someone tell me exactly what is Napalm and if it is so dangerous
>that people don't want it in their state, why are sending it back and
>forth across the country on a train. If it is that dangerous, shouldn't
>they just leave it where it is and distroy it there.
>
>Sue
>
> Napalm Shipment Held in Kansas
>
>> WASHINGTON (AP) -- A train carrying napalm that
>> triggered protests when it was shipped halfway across
>> the country is apparently headed back to California
>> while the Navy looks for ways to dispose of it.
>>
>> The 12,000 gallons of jellied gasoline -- which
>> authorities say is not an explosive danger -- was being
>> held in Kansas City, Kan., today while the Navy searches
>> for a waste management company to handle it.
>>
>> Assistant Navy Secretary Robert Pirie, asked today if
>> the Navy would send the train to the China Lake Naval
>> Weapons Testing Center, responded: ``We've been working
>> on that alternative, yes.'' In any event, Pirie said,
>> ``We've gone out of our way to see there is no danger to
>> the public.''
>>
>> Rep. Bill Thomas, whose district includes China Lake,
>> said the Navy wanted to send the train back to
>> California, but added, ``The Navy and the state of
>> California still need to work out some details on such
>> an arrangement.''
>>
>> The China Lake facility is about 120 miles northwest of
>> Los Angeles.
>>
>> The search for a waste management company came after the
>> original company backed out, citing public uproar over
>> the napalm.
>>
>> The military and Battelle Memorial Institute, the
>> primary contractor on the recycling job, said Wednesday
>> they were searching for a storage place and for a
>> company that could properly handle the sensitive cargo.
>>
>> ``The ideal solution is to find somebody that could take
>> it and treat it,'' said Robin Yocum, a spokesman for
>> Ohio-based Battelle. ``We want it to happen now.''
>>
>> But finding a company with the proper permits and
>> approval from environmental and health authorities might
>> take some time, Yocum said.
>>
>> Maggie Wilde, a spokeswoman for Laidlaw Environmental
>> Services in Utah, said Wednesday her company has been
>> approached and, with a minor permit change, could burn
>> the napalm.
>>
>> Laidlaw, which has seen business decline at its
>> hazardous-waste incinerator in recent years, likely
>> would welcome the Navy's business. But Wilde said it
>> first would need a slight modification to its permit to
>> allow it to mix water with napalm before feeding it into
>> its furnances.
>>
>> ``We hear the term `napalm' and we have horrible images
>> of what that is,'' said Dennis Downs, director of the
>> Utah Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste. But he said
>> it is no more dangerous than any other flammable liquid
>> that travels highways in large quantities every day.
>>
>> The shipment, transported by Burlington Northern/Santa
>> Fe Railway, left California on Saturday and traveled
>> through parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma
>> and Kansas before reaching Kansas City late Wednesday.
>>
>> The single flatbed car with its load of napalm sat in a
>> railroad yard in Kansas City, Kan., today.
>>
>> The 12,000 gallons, carried on one railcar, is part of
>> 3.3 million gallons that were to be transported batch by
>> batch over two years from a naval station at Fallbrook,
>> Calif., near San Diego, to the Chicago area plant for
>> recycling into fuel for cement kilns.
>>
>> Lt. Cmdr. Jon Smith, a Navy spokesman, said the military
>> still wants to recycle all the stored napalm, likely
>> using one of the three other subcontractors who
>> originally bid on the job. ``We're working it as
>> aggressively and as quickly as possible so we can to
>> find a responsible solution to all of this,'' he said.
>>
>> The Vietnam-era napalm has been stored at the naval
>> station since 1973. California officials sought its
>> removal after some containers began leaking in the field
>> where they had been stored, raising the possibility of
>> damaging the soil of surrounding agricultural areas.
>>
>> The impasse began on Monday when Pollution Control
>> Industries abruptly backed out of its $2.5 million
>> subcontract -- which is part of the larger $24 million
>> recycling program -- citing pressure from Midwestern
>> politicians who objected to transporting napalm across
>> the country and recycling it in their states.
>>
>> Meanwhile, the Navy has been busy reassuring the public
>> there is no hazard in transporting the napalm, which was
>> used in the Vietnam War to burn foliage.
>
>
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>
>1. Don't tell people everything you know.
>2.
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