The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 1, 1999 - A7

(THIS TRAIN tanker containing dangerous ammonia

‘derailed last Friday in the Terrace yard, but did not

Derailed tanker di

THE CNR train that
derailed last Friday in the
Terrace yard could have
Spelled disaster for local
firefighters.

+ Had three derailed tankers
lipped all the way over, they
would bave leaked a cor-
fosive chemical.

> “Luckily, it’s a non-
évent,”? ‘said Terrace Fire
Chief Randy Smith. “Ti was
an unfortunate accident,”
‘A number of the 90-car
train’s tankers were cartying
liquified = anhydrous am-
monia, a chemical classified
isa dangerous commodity,
The ammonia was being
Shipped to Kitimat where it

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‘at Onion
Lake

MAYOR JACK TALSTRA
says the city’s preferred
location for a long-term
regional dump is a proposed
sile at Onion Lake.

That site would allow
more intensive operations
like recycling and compost-
ing than the Thombill
dump, Talstra says.

; And be says. the cily wants
to do more in (hat area than
it has to now, while at the
same time balancing the
cost to taxpayers.

: ‘Our view is to do the
waste thing correctly and
properly and move into the
next milleanium it probably
means the site at onion lake
Alats,’? Talstra said.

“We would have recy-
cling facilities there. We
would do ihe sorting up
these and sell what is salable
and give away that which is
Grganic and can be given
away,”

« Terrace city council this
summer approved a plan to
go ahead with closure of the
Terrace dump as soon as
possible — likely by year’s
end — and then divert all
Terrace garbage io the
Thornhill dump. .
>The Thormbill landfill is
the ouly short-term option;
Talstra said, because it
Would take three to. five
years to cslablish a new site
at Onion Lake, |
«He also noted the Onion
Eake site may only be vi-
able if Kitimat council
reverses its opposition - to
that plan,

«Kitinal’s municipal dump °
has plenty of life left in it
and politicians there aren’t
interested in spending more
moncy to be part of a
regional dump.

= “Kitimat is not on side,”
added City of Terrace
Gngineering director Stew
Ghristensen. ‘‘They have
pul it in writing they're not
interested for 40 years.”

- Talstra said Terrace has
fast-lracked plans to close
its dump because the cn-
vironment ministry recently
indicated closure casts
would be much lower than
previously estimated, ;
™ “We thought for that price
we better accept before.they
change. thelr minds,” Tal-
stra said.

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leak. Had the chemical escaped, a relatively small °
area around the tanker would have been evacuated,

dn’t leak

Dangerous ammonia would
have burned lungs if inhaled

was bound for export.

The train was pulling into
the Terrace yard at about
9:30 aan. and travelling ata
speed of four miles per
hour, when three tankers
derailed, driving the wain's
wheels into the ground.

‘Tt encbuntered some
defect in the rail,’ said CN
Rail spokesman Graham
Dallas. ‘‘We believe that
was the cause of the derail-
ment,”’

Terrace Fire Chief Randy

Smith said the city’s emer-
gency disaster plan wasn’t
pul into effect because the
situation was under control.

The tinker was immedi-
ately secured with a
hydraulic jack to ensure it
wouldn’t tip over, -

Had anhydrous ammonia
leaked from: the car, Smith
said a zone of 50 to 100

metres around the car would - -

have been evacuated.
“Is a very dangerous
product,” Sinith said, ‘It’s

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The derailment did not af-
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