{"id":1591,"date":"2006-10-06T21:40:38","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T02:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2006-10-06T21:40:38","modified_gmt":"2006-10-07T02:40:38","slug":"apex-fire-not-bhopal-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/apex-fire-not-bhopal-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Apex fire &#8211; not Bhopal yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night there was a fire in Apex, NC. That would have been innocent enough, but the fire was at a hazardous waste storage facility in downtown Apex. The inaptly name <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eqonline.com\/locations\/eq_north_carolina.asp\">EQ North Carolina<\/a>, where the EQ stands for Environmental Quality, fire released a large and lingering cloud of chlorine gas leading to the evacuation of 16,000 people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exileonjonesstreet.com\/2006\/10\/06\/apex-evacuated\/\">Kirk Ross at Exile on Jones Street notes<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apexnc.org\/around_apex\/webcam.cfm\">the Town of Apex has a webcam right near the site<\/a> and that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/10012555\/detail.html\">WRAL has aerial photos and more<\/a>. I note that both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/1360\/story\/495143.html\">the News and Observer package<\/a> and WRAL use internet mapping services &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.yahoo.com\/maps_result?addr=1005%20Investment%20Blvd,%20Apex%20NC\">Yahoo! at N and O<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=1005+Investment+Blvd,+Apex,+NC&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;om=1&#038;z=15&#038;ll=35.727214,-78.839607&#038;spn=0.014423,0.038452&#038;t=h&#038;iwloc=A\">Google at WRAL.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kirk also lists <a href=\"http:\/\/wastenot.enr.state.nc.us\/HWHOME\/penalties\/2006.htm\">the violations for which EQ NC was cited in March of this year<\/a> and for which they were fined $32,000.00.<br \/>\nEQ NC failed to (partial list follows):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maintain and operate the facility to minimize the possibility of a sudden or non-sudden release of hazardous waste constituents to air, soil or surface water which could threaten human health or the environment;<\/li>\n<li>Immediately carry out the provisions of the contingency plan whenever there is a  release of hazardous waste or constituents which threatens or could threaten human health or the environment;<\/li>\n<li>Not store a container of hazardous waste that is incompatible with any waste or material stored; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night there was a fire in Apex, NC. That would have been innocent enough, but the fire was at a hazardous waste storage facility in downtown Apex. The inaptly name EQ North Carolina, where the EQ stands for Environmental Quality, fire released a large and lingering cloud of chlorine gas leading to the evacuation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}