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Explosion? Fire? Must be an oil and gas disaster

08/06/2007
Ignorance and suspicion frolic again at the expense of oil and gas.On the morning of July 25, an explosion and fire in Dallas shut down two busy interstate highways. News reports, apparently starting with an Associated Press story, attributed the blast to liquefied natural gas.Well into the afternoon, for example, the web site of the Dallas NBC television affiliate was reporting this: “Explosions at a liquefied natural gas plant Wednesday morning injured three people and shut down Interstate 35E and Interstate 30 near downtown Dallas, forcing evacuations within a half-mile.”The facility that blew up was an acetylene distribution center owned by Southwest Industrial Gases Inc. ...
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