and there s millions of pounds of it sitting there at this site. and two years after those giant explosions shook minden, louisiana, all the way to texas, it let the world know the toxic stuff was there. in a quantity of millions of pounds two years after the explosions, the epa came in and announced their plan to safely dispose of all that toxic, explosive artillery propellant. the biggest pile of it in the country. they announced what they were going to do with it. their safe plan for disposal was that they would set it on fire. they just burn it. not going to move it anywhere, not going to build any special facilities, or explosive destruction systems for minden. they re not going to build some multibillion dollar sealed system to turn it out to to turn it all into bacteria food. nope, they re just going to set it on fire in northwest louisiana. their announced plan as of this last october was, i kid you not, it is not more complicated than this, they were going to take the stuff
and this stuff can t just be left to rot. because when it rots, it tends to explode. you can t just leave this stuff. it has to be destroyed. and there s millions of pounds of it sitting there at this site. and two years after those giant explosions shook minden, louisiana, all the way to texas, it let the world know the toxic stuff was there. two years after the explosions, the epa came in and announced their plan to safely dispose of all that toxic explosive artillery propellant. the biggest pile of it in the country. they announced what they were going to do with it. their safe plan for disposal was that they would set it on fire. they just burn it. not going to move it anywhere, not going to build any special facilities, or explosive destruction systems for minden. they re not going to build some multibillion dollar sealed system to turn it out to bacteria food. nope, they re just going to set
multibillion dollar sealed system to turn it out to bacteria food. nope they re just going to set it on fire in northwest louisiana. their announced plan as of this last october was, i kid you not, it is not more complicated than this, they were going to take the stuff outside, put it in big trays outdoors, and set it on fire. burn it into the open air. 80,000 pounds of it a day. for, maybe a few hundred days 220 days maybe more, depending on how it went. and that was not just like the idea that was floated of one way to do it. that was what they announced the plan was going to be in october. look at the headlines from the associated press. plan reached to clear explosives. and the plan is to burn it in trays. even the local officials expressed interest at least burning it in an incinerator. no, the plan was just an open fire.