Reply to: The Fuel Depot Fire...

[Fungus]

Yes, not whacko though but dead true (so someone in the pub told me in confidence) - Gordon Brown secretly arranged the whole thing to prop up the retail price of fuel and maximize his tax receipts.

The snag is apparently that depot only stored 5% of the UK's fuel reserves. So we can expect to see another two or three fuel depots go up in smoke before long

Seriously, makes you think though - That huge smoke plume, even allowing for "collateral combustion" i.e. of stuff other than fuel, is only what would be belched into the air over however long that amount of fuel would normally be used by vehicles. Only a week or two, or a month maybe?

Apparently the fuel all burnt very efficiently due to the heat hence the pollution risk is less than it might have been.

To be honest Luton could do with something like the depot fire. It could only improve the place. But I guess that even a petrol company would not stoop so low as to site a depot here.

Leif

[threaded]

Now we know why it was cheap...

[Mailman]

Hmmm. Makes you wonder how the present government would handle a national emergency.

Oh, we've seen how - foot and mouth.

Stop your bloody crying!

The government is not responsible for every minute detail of your life. THese companies that had offices near this place is not the governments responsibility and the only reason companies like Dixons and Kodak had their offices there was because it was cheap to put the buildings there.

Mailman

[DaveB]

Didn't realise so much was in Hemel Hempstead.

Dixon's HQ is there and is closed, Kodak's only facility for developing Kodachrome films is also closed and apparently destroyed, and As Seen On Screen (asos.com) has ceased trading temporarily due to the damage to their premises.

Good to see the Labour Party have a good Disaster Recovery plan in action. Must have been formulated for them by EDS.

Not to mention Northgate Information Systems. Backend database services for a number of large hospitals were hosted there, all gone up in smoke now. From the reports it appears Northgate didnt have a DR facility in place.

[DodgyAgent]

Hmmm. Makes you wonder how the present government would handle a national emergency.

Oh, we've seen how - foot and mouth.

wrong thread wendi

[wendigo100]

Good to see the Labour Party have a good Disaster Recovery plan in action. Must have been formulated for them by EDS.

Hmmm. Makes you wonder how the present government would handle a national emergency.

Oh, we've seen how - foot and mouth.

[dazza12]

A terrible casualty of the explosion.

http://www.labour.org.uk/

Welcome to the Labour Party website. The normal site is temporarily unavailable following an explosion at Buncefield oil depot in Hemel Hempstead on Sunday 11 December.

Didn't realise so much was in Hemel Hempstead.

Dixon's HQ is there and is closed, Kodak's only facility for developing Kodachrome films is also closed and apparently destroyed, and As Seen On Screen (asos.com) has ceased trading temporarily due to the damage to their premises.

Good to see the Labour Party have a good Disaster Recovery plan in action. Must have been formulated for them by EDS.

[OwlHoot]

<conspiracy_mode>
I reckon it was the Yanks, they've done it to really feck up Kyoto.
</conspiracy_mode>

Anybody else got a whacko conspiracy theory?

Yes, not whacko though but dead true (so someone in the pub told me in confidence) - Gordon Brown secretly arranged the whole thing to prop up the retail price of fuel and maximize his tax receipts.

The snag is apparently that depot only stored 5% of the UK's fuel reserves. So we can expect to see another two or three fuel depots go up in smoke before long

Seriously, makes you think though - That huge smoke plume, even allowing for "collateral combustion" i.e. of stuff other than fuel, is only what would be belched into the air over however long that amount of fuel would normally be used by vehicles. Only a week or two, or a month maybe?

[luke warm]

I think you lot are being naive to believe this was an accident

Milan.

From the current terrorist's history they like to kill civilians (generally unlike the IRA in their time) so Sunday was a really bad day to do it. If you wanted to really disrupt the oil based economy of a western power you would blow a few of these depots up at the same time to seriously affect the supply of fuel.

For it to be other than an accident seems implausible.

[hyperD]

A terrible casualty of the explosion.

http://www.labour.org.uk/

Welcome to the Labour Party website. The normal site is temporarily unavailable following an explosion at Buncefield oil depot in Hemel Hempstead on Sunday 11 December.

Part of the offices of our hosting company were extensively damaged, resulting in the loss of our site.

We will be back online as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, if you have any questions, please call us on 08705 900200

With any luck they won't have a backup and will have to remember all the lies they put in there in the first pace.

Perhaps they'll get the permission from another B/C-list celeb like Patrick Stewart or Richard Wilson to write another load of boll0cks in a pro-liebour email...

[wendigo100]

A terrible casualty of the explosion.

http://www.labour.org.uk/

Welcome to the Labour Party website. The normal site is temporarily unavailable following an explosion at Buncefield oil depot in Hemel Hempstead on Sunday 11 December.

Part of the offices of our hosting company were extensively damaged, resulting in the loss of our site.

We will be back online as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, if you have any questions, please call us on 08705 900200

Perhaps it really was terrorism, and the Labour website was the intended target!

It wouldn't be terrorism then though. It would be freedom fighters.

Or pest controllers.

[DimPrawn]

A terrible casualty of the explosion.

http://www.labour.org.uk/

Welcome to the Labour Party website. The normal site is temporarily unavailable following an explosion at Buncefield oil depot in Hemel Hempstead on Sunday 11 December.

Part of the offices of our hosting company were extensively damaged, resulting in the loss of our site.

We will be back online as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, if you have any questions, please call us on 08705 900200

[expat]

and fire fighters called back because they did not know what was in one of the tanks

WTF, you mean to tell me no one in charge of the refinary knew what was in one of the tanks...?

I think thats more disturbing than the cause of the fire

That did occur to me too. I think they pulled back because they did know what is in that tank.

[Mustang]

Bear in mind that this occurred the day after there was a security alert in Milton Keynes.......!! Coincidence?

[xodia]

and fire fighters called back because they did not know what was in one of the tanks

WTF, you mean to tell me no one in charge of the refinary knew what was in one of the tanks...?

I think thats more disturbing than the cause of the fire