On Sunday, thick smoke was seen rising above the refinery area down in the Gothenburg harbor. A fire broke out at a refinery owned by petrol company Preem on Hisingen, in Gothenburg, on Sunday.
The operations at the plant had been temporarily stopped for an overhaul, and it was as production got underway again that the fire could have begun.
All staff in the area affected by the blaze were evacuated, and the refinery’s own emergency services were called into action as soon as the fire was discovered at around 1.30pm. In addition to the plant’s own fire personnel, 35 men from Gothenburg emergency services were also called to scene.
Soon after 3pm the emergency services were still working on cooling the systems around the fire scene itself. First after the systems had been cooled down were they able to start to put the fire out.
According to Preem’s press officer Thomas Ögren, it seems as if something had leaked out and caused the fire sometimes during or after the overhaul, when the plant was started up again. “You heat stuff up, it comes under pressure and so on. That’s when you test it to see that everything’s as it should be. It seems that something leaked,” he said.
The Hisingen refinery with its capacity of around 5 million tons of crude oil per year is one of two refineries owned by Preem in Sweden. The other is in Lysekil.
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The Bitterness of Slavery: Brazilian Sugar and Modern Slavery
As most listeners and readers know, this year marks the two-hundredth anniversary of Britain’s abolition of the slave trade—the culmination of a decades-long campaign led by William Wilberforce and other British Christians.
The Virginia Tech murders gave short-sighted social commentators an excuse for indicting America as a “sick society” but the same week brought news from around the world that paints an illuminating picture.
Welcome to WeatherBrains, a weekly audio program for people who love weather.
In this week’s episode:
Get Off The Bus: We talk with Drew Burroughs from Dallas, TX, who was asked, along with other passengers, to leave a Dallas Area Rapid Transit bus during a Tornado Warning;
More Brains: Like forked lightning…WeatherBrains branches out with a new website. ClimateBrains allows you to post, read and write all things Global Warming;
In the Weather Roundtable: “An Inconvenient Truth†(Al Gore’s global warming movie) will be required viewing in schools in England. Also: One of the driest places on earth and stadium safety during storms;
This Week In Weather History: Think lightning (and tornadoes) don’t strike the same place twice? The first tornado picture … and the infamous video that still has people driving for cover in the wrong place! Bill Murray has TWIWH.
Part 2: Gary Toyn aurhor of “The Quiet Hero: The Untold Medal of Honor Story of George E. Wahlen at the Battle for Iwo Jima.†joins Randy and Jerry to discuss this exceptional look at a true American Hero.
Hugh Hewitt talks with Rudy Giuliani about his stance on abortion; Michael Medved discusses the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the ban on the brutal procedure known as partial birth abortion; and Dennis Prager opines on filmaker Michael Moore’s decision to promote Cuba’s communist health care in his new film entitled Sicko. All this and more…
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Once You Have an Epithet, Why Think?
Frank shows how the origins of today’s bumper-sticker mentality is a direct descendant of Trotskyite ideology, as expressed in his slogan, “Once you have an epithet, why think?”.
Plus, how lax immigration plays a role in the increasing Mohammadean threat against Great Britain…. political pedophilia on American Idol… your phone calls at 718-761-9996 and much more.
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Frank shows how the origins of today’s bumper-sticker mentality is a direct descendant of Trotskyite ideology, as expressed in his slogan, “Once you have an epithet, why think?”.
Plus, how lax immigration plays a role in the increasing Mohammadean threat against Great Britain…. political pedophilia on American Idol… your phone calls at 718-761-9996 and much more.
Boere activist Dries Kriel, who has spent his life’s work dedicated to the cause of the Boerevolk, speaks about his effort to turn May 1st from a Communist Holiday into a volksdag, and the Boere’s plans to rally together against the Communist-ANC’s plans to deface the Women’s Monument in Bloomfontein.
Prager H1: Nobody won. Nobody lost. They all want to leave Iraq. They all want universal health care. But is either good for the country? Not if you thinking clearly.
Happiness Hour: Taking Responsibility With Dennis Prager
Prager H2: The moment you take responsibility for your failures, you will improve your chances to be happy. Believing you are a victim, makes happiness almost
Prager H3: Per usual, callers set the agenda. Topics raised include: how do you talk a senior citizen out of suicide; can you rush someone with a gun and stop him; is it okay to dream about other women; what do you with a six-year-old who already envies her friends; should a mother let her 12-year-old son look at the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue; and, is Dennis sorry he didn’t run for Senate.
Hewitt: Hour 1 – A very ecclectic show originates from the L.A. Times Festival of Books at UCLA as Hugh speaks with novelist Mark Helprin, living legend of stage and screen Julie Andrews, and The Nation’s Katrina Vandenheuvel
Hewitt: Hour 2 – Hugh talks the political news of the week, including the war vote, with Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer, and with Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff. Tarzana Joe sits in with Hugh for the last segment.
Hewitt: Hour 3 – Steve Wasserman, creative force behind the L.A. Times Festival of Books, followed by a replay of the Julie Andrews interview, a blog controversy over the partial birth abortion decision by the Court this week spills over onto the radio with University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone, and Tarzana Joe’s ode to Harry Reid’s war is lost comments.
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Dinesh D’Souza vs. Bob Barr: Is the War on Terror Advancing or Undermining Liberty?
Young America’s Foundation speakers Dinesh D’Souza and Bob Barr debate whether the War on Terror is undermining liberty and freedom in the United States. The debate is moderated by Foundation speaker and San Diego radio talk show host, Mark Larson.
Rock Legend Ted Nugent talks about how individuals do more to protect the environment and protect freedom then government bureaucrats. This speech occurred at Young America’s Foundation’s FreedomFest Conference.
Malmö a city in Southern Sweden suffering from economic and social problems erupted again this weekend. Southern Sweden known for it’s high Islamic population and ethnic street gangs clashed with fire and police who were responding to fires set in garbage rooms in buildings within the community of RosengÃ¥rd.
When will the immigrant population within this community and other communities throughout Europe make efforts to integrate with western society?
What will it take for European governments to wake up and realize there are real problems with mass immigration and far too little assimilation.
Honor killings, female circumcision, religious extremism and attacks against western values, citezens and society must be stopped.
The governments and the left wing media have to stop pretending a problem does not exist. Avoiding the problem and not writing about the problem will not make the problem go away. What happened in Malmö this past weekend has all the markings of being a lead up to the riots we have seen all too often in Paris.
Youths throwing stones and eggs came to blows with police and fire officers in Malmö’s RosengÃ¥rd housing estate on Saturday night.
At two points in the evening the demonstrators were judged so threatening that fire officers refused to enter the area without a police escort.
The troubles started at about 7:30pm when police received a call from a member of the public alleging that they had been threatened. A police patrol went to Ramels Väg in Rosengård to respond to the report, and while officers investigated youths gathered and started throwing stones.
By 8:30pm around 15 young people were throwing stones and eggs at police.
When the fire brigade arrived to extinguish a fire in a warehouse on the same street, the stone-throwing youths turned on fire officers.
“Because of this and because the situation is tense in the area, the emergency services will from now on wait for the police before entering the area,” the emergency services said in a press release on Saturday night.
“The emergency services will also send extra resources in the event of an alert,” the statement continued.
By 11pm two warehouses were burning on Ramels Väg. Extra police had to be called in to protect the fire brigade as they battled to extinguish the blazes.
The situation had quietened down by midnight, emergency services said.
Police said that no arrests had been made, although officers have made formal reports alleging that they were the victims of assault.
The Rosengård estate is known for suffering from high levels of unemployment, and for having the highest concentration of immigrant communities of any area in Sweden.
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A 102 year old building was seriously damaged after a fire on Sunday night.
The Halmstad Grand Hotel right opposite to the Central Station in Halmstad had to be evacuated after a fire started in a garbage room on the inner hotel yard and then spread to the main hotel building. No people were injured, but hotel guests and next door neighbors had to be evacuated and put into other hotels.
Get Off The Bus: We talk with Drew Burroughs from Dallas, TX, who was asked, along with other passengers, to leave a Dallas Area Rapid Transit bus during a Tornado Warning;
In the Weather Roundtable: “An Inconvenient Truth†(Al Gore’s global warming movie) will be required viewing in schools in England. Also: One of the driest places on earth and stadium safety during storms;
This Week In Weather History: Think lightning (and tornadoes) don’t strike the same place twice? The first tornado picture … and the infamous video that still has people driving for cover in the wrong place! Bill Murray has TWIWH.
