Louisiana Parish Covered in Toxic White Catalyst Powder From Refinery Shutdown

[mawacal]

life in chalmette. welcome newcomers

[regidaws]

Doesn't the MSDS say exactly what is in this catalyst, besides clay? A refinery that insists on hiding the identity does NOT make me feel more comfortable! Searching Google for "spent catalyst refinery" finds several possible ingredients, including Vanadium and Molybdenum.

I think Material Safety Data Sheets sometimes tend to exaggerate dangers... but the secrecy the industry and news media are enforcing is very worrisome to me... a retired chemist.

[Theocratos]

It's just a shitty minor provocation aimed to install some fear and alarm in the public. We all can remember this same shittie play with white powders shortly after 9-11. These people behind this have no creative imagination at all.

[OzzyPatriot]

Lemme tell ya as an industrial spray painter.

If this shit ISN'T very very bad for you , as a byproduct of an industrial process. You should go out and by a lottery ticket if you breathed it. Because the odds of you winning and the odds that it wont be harmfully to you are about the same.

[rushfan9thcmd]

every damn blade of grass is covered........

[odin422]

shell this time eh??? New Orleans keeps gettin fucked.