Rail Company Pissed Off Environmentalists Before Ohio Crash

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Before its chemical train derailed in East Palestine, Norfolk Southern donated to a controversial police training site that would decimate an Atlanta forest.

gave $100,000 to a campaign to build a police facility in an Atlanta forest, financial documents show. As residents of East Palestine, Ohio grapple with financial fallout from the derailment, activists in Atlanta are drawing comparisons between the two environmental battles.

In early November, three months before the derailment in East Palestine, another set of Norfolk Southern vehicles sat ablaze. But this fire, which damaged three construction vehicles in Atlanta, was a deliberate act of arson, according to activists who took credit for the fire. The saboteurs had turned to arson after a protracted standoff with Atlanta officials. Since April 2021, when Atlanta announced plans for a $90 million, 85-acre police-training facility in the South River Forest, residents have expressed environmental concerns about the planned deforestation.

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Really? THAT’S your take away on this alarming situation? I guess it should not be surprising that you would ignore actual stories here about the impact and consequences for people, not to mention the environment…ignore it all just like JoeBiden and the WhiteHouse. Also known…

The environmentalists are FKN SILENT! Why?!?

Ahh cute. The same people who donated to Biden

Ffs. Why you lying ?

prosecute. maximum penalties. permanent reparations. corporate crimes against civilization. intentional dereliction of duty. osha.

Web of deception

So they lobbied to have those regulations removed to save money and now they’ll likely go bankrupt because of lawsuits? Wasn’t cheaper to just follow the law?

And they've a train tracks that goes through the proposed are with high speed every hr.

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