Evacuation lifted after fire at fracking chemical warehouse
Source: AP
LEETSDALE, Pa. (AP) — Workers at a Pennsylvania warehouse were pouring hydraulic fracturing chemicals into a production tank Tuesday when a fire started, forcing residents from more than 70 nearby homes for several hours and injuring several people, emergency and company officials said.
Hazardous materials crews moved people living near the warehouse in Leetsdale to a high school gymnasium as a precaution. They were allowed to return after crews announced the fire was largely under control just before 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The fire was at Lubrizol Corp.'s Oilfield Chemistry site about 15 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
The company and Allegheny County Emergency Services Chief Alvin Henderson said three employees were injured. One reportedly had a burned hand and two inhaled fumes, Henderson said. Several firefighters were also being evaluated for inhaling fumes. None of the injuries was deemed life-threatening, Henderson and the company said.
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Smoke fills the air from a chemical warehouse fire in Leetsdale, Pa., Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015. The large, smoky chemical warehouse fire near Pittsburgh has forced residents from about 70 nearby homes to be evacuated and injured several people. (Bob Donaldson/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; MONESSEN OUT; KITTANNING OUT; CONNELLSVILLE OUT; GREENSBURG OUT; TARENTUM OUT; NORTH HILLS NEWS RECORD OUT; BUTLER OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT
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Same thing with the wind turbine tornadoes. Those things really devastate communities. A little toxic fracking fire, meh.
Do I need 
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This is a solar panel field.
Or a destructive weather system trashes the thing?
Let's not forget how they make these things: amorphous silicon solar panels are grown from a gas called Silane, the formula of which is SiH4. "Say, that looks familiar!" Yup, it's basically methane with the central carbon atom replaced with a central silicon atom - except that it's more flammable, more of an explosion hazard, and a poison gas to boot.
The moral of this story: There is NO completely benign source of energy. None. Fuels all pollute the environment. Solar panels are dangerous to make. Wind turbines are dangerous to make AND hazardous to birds. Hydroelectric changes the topology of the land and alters fish habit, and if a dam breaks the wave of water kills people downstream from it. Geothermal...it's probably as close to benign as you'll run into, but you can probably find someone who'll tell you we can't drill into the earth because the little devils will come up from Hades and turn us all into...I don't know, liberals or something. (All together now: "and that would be GOOD, right?"
We can't eliminate all the assaults on the environment, but we can reduce them to the lowest practical amount.
