The situation in E Palestine Ohio has not changed very much. There are still residents with ongoing health issues in the town. Some residents have accepted money from the train company (Norfolk Southern) to leave town, but it only enough for a week or a few weeks. There is no money to help them permanently leave the toxic area. The Federal Government has abandoned them and are not helping at all. The EPA testing conflicts with independent testing and the EPA leave it up to Norfolk Southern to test for important toxins - Dioxin. Needless to say, the mediacoverage has been minimal as it appears they want to minimize this catastrophe and lead people to move on from it and forget about it.
Although it does not only affect that town, as it was previously mentioned here. When they chose to recklessly burn 5 train cars of tons of chemicals by draining them into a ditch and putting a torch to it, they created a huge plume of a mushroom cloud and turned the toxic chemicals that were already harmful, into dioxins. This plume first got trapped by an upper weather system, so it spread horizontal for miles. Then, it moved slowly over states, bodies of water and across the border into Canada. This is a very wide-spread area. Earlier, I described some effects in parts of Northern New Hampshire. Since then, a woman told me her son is a lineman who works in New Hampshire and Massachusetts His white car was literally covered orange in a storm. He also reported a strong odor in part of Massachusetts. In March, there were reports of dead seagull at Hampton Beach in New Hampshire by someone who is a participant in the Hampton Beach Facebook group. That was reported to Fish and Game.
A man in E Palestine Ohio reported in late march that his dog brought home a dead bird and dead weasel close together in time which he said, has not happened in the past. The lack of wildlife in parts of Northern New Hampshire that I witnessed, continues. It is a wooded area. There are usually many birds in the trees, fluttering around and you can see the movement and hear them. There are also squirrel continually moving around in the wooded trees. Lately, you can look at these trees and see nothing. You can look in the sky and watch for birds and see nothing flying. You hear silence at a time when spring birds usually increase singing their songs. There are still a few crow and mourning dove that you may hear and an occasional woodpecker or small bird at the feeder, but nothing like the usual activity of nature since they seemed to flee in February.
There may still be a problem with the weather systems bringing toxins from the waste pile that is still in Ohio. There were hundreds of thousands of gallons of toxic material and chemical there. It is not secured, but they are transporting it to secure sites in other states. Secure sites required, means that it is not safe sitting in that town right now unsecured! The latest is they need at least 3 months to remove it. They want to minimize this, as they minimize the initial plume from their deliberate burn! When there is a hurricane, we do not stay focused only on the town where the hurricane is first reported to be a hurricane! We follow the path of the hurricane and anything that may happen from it, where it goes. This did not happen with this huge plume that spread miles in its path. They want you to forget. Do not forget. Because, this can effect water supplies, crops and food supplies, wildlife and human life. We must move forward knowing this and not ignoring this. We must pay attention to anything unusual that may be a result of this and stand together in the truth, that once again, they want us to ignore! Thank you for visiting this site. Take care. Never give up and never be silenced!
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