(By guest blogger, Andy Jackson)
Khabarovsk, Russia is about to get a chemical bath from 100 tons of Chinese toxins:
The chemicals that spilled last month from a factory explosion upriver in China were expected to reach Khabarovsk as soon as Wednesday. The Emergency Situations Ministry said late Tuesday that the spill was about 70 kilometers up the Amur River from city limits.
Hot water supplies might have to be suspended for as long as seven days and cold water for up to three days, Governor Viktor Ishayev said.
The cutoff of hot water is especially unpleasant:
Apartment blocks in this city of 580,000, where daytime temperatures hovered around 4 below zero, are warmed by water heated at central facilities. Authorities said they may have to shut down that central heating to stop the chemicals from entering municipal pipes.
For Korea watchers, Khabarovsk is famous as the birthplace of Kim Jong-il (and a possible location for his future exile).
The city still has connections to North Korea through nearby logging camps.
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Nice banner pic.
I think Kim Jong-il is still the most toxic thing to ever come out of that city.
Apparently there is a second large river in China that has experienced a large toxic spill of cadmium. I don’t think the CCP can cover this one up with bullets and threats either.
Truly amusing. Russians will now have to sort out Chinese toxins from the ones flowing from Russian facilities.
Huh, interesting, now you try to invert blaming the Russians.
If Kim Jong-il has any humanity, he will rush up there, strip naked, and step into the waters, thereby using his “aura” to divert the toxic chemicals and thus prove for once and for all his divinity.