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Alamo1 Presenting at AWMA San Antonio

Dr. Scott Harris will the featured speaker at the 9/21/17 Air and Waste Management Association luncheon, held at The Petroleum Club in San Antonio.  Scott will present Preparing the Florida Keys for Deepwater Horizon beginning at noon. A description of the session: In response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil release, Scott was embedded with the […]

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Oil on the Kalamazoo

Oil on the Kalamazoo

In late 2010, I was returning from the second of two large concurrent U.S. oil spills.  In another post, you read about efforts to prepare the Florida Keys for Deepwater Horizon oil, the first of the two.  That spill overshadowed the second – the Enbridge Energy pipeline release. On July 25, 2010 Enbridge’s 30-inch diameter […]

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The worst industrial disaster in U.S. history — so far

The worst industrial disaster in U.S. history — so far

On April 16th in 1947, Texas City, TX suffered the worst industrial accident in American history.  It’s well documented (even video, parts one and two) how the Grandcamp, loaded with ammonium nitrate, began burning and eventually exploded, killing more than 600 including the entire Texas City Fire Department and most of the bystanders and schoolchildren there watching. After the […]

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“Carrier Fire”

“Carrier Fire”

  That’s all the title had in it: “Carrier Fire”.  I got this email from my father a few years ago and read it with great appreciation.  Dad was a Marine before he was a firefighter, and as I’ve told many people many times, he never really saw the difference.  I grew up running around the […]

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Remembering a Chlorine Derailment

Remembering a Chlorine Derailment

It doesn’t seem like 13 years since I had a run-in with a railcar of “skull and crossbone” material.  At that time I was a Federal On-Scene Coordinator (FOSC) with the U.S. EPA in Dallas, TX.  FOSCs are the lead for agency responses to oil and hazardous substance releases and have full authority to direct […]

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