Quebec Oil Train Explosion

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 509.

Toxic Sludge in Hungary

This is the same just one hundred miles off the Hungarian capital Budapest. People dead, villages______________, and ecological disaster____________. All it seems because of a_____________. A ______holding a huge ________of ____________burst. _______suggest a million cubic metres____________, the equivalent of four hundred Olympic swimming pools. It was up to __________deep in places. Residents were terrified and forced to run to___________. These escaped the red ___________from an _______plant, apparently ________four and six more are__________. They report of survivors being ______________and of others having serious____________. The material is also slightly ____________and inhaling its ______can cause__________. A state of emergency is now being _________and disaster units are now desperately trying to stop the sludge from ___________the Danube. Right now water of Europe's major _________is under real _______.

At least one passing has _______ and several others are _______after a _______carrying crude oil _______into enduring fireball in a small Canadian town. The driverless train _____and crashed into the streets of Lac-Megantic sending ______ hundreds of feet into the air, ______ cars and _________up to thirty buildings. Around 1,000 people were ________from their homes and local media said that between __________ people are still missing. Four of the seventy three pressurized ________ blew up when the train _________ the rails sending locals scrambling for safety. “It was rock as it leapt, there were big balls of fire above the café, we jumped over the railing, because the street just in a time it took to cross the street, the street was filled with fire, it was a river of fire.” Huge clouds of thick black _______ were still rising form a Quebec province several hours after the disaster. The police fear that the ___________ will rise.

(b) Organize a panel discussion of the following:

1. Why is the sludge so dangerous? Could it just drown?
2. What were the immediate aftermaths of the sludge? What are the long-term aftermaths?
3. What is the reason of explosion in Quebeq? Why do you think the train was driverless?
4. What are possible aftermaths of this explosion? What consequences for the environment can this accident have?
5. Is it likely that the death toll will rise?
6. Could these catastrophes have been prevented? How? Express your own opinion.

8. Make a short photo presentation of a recent man-made disaster according to the following scheme using:

• place and date
• event (accident)
• reasons
• aftermaths
• preventative measures.