Cf industries fertilizer plant. We bid it, my fingers are crossed
Since I'm only about 40 miles from the site of the fertilizer plant explosion in West, TX back in April, CF Industries is a familiar name in the newspapers here. Unfortunately, they're being sued by the ambulance chasers since they are the deep pockets business that supplied (sold) the ammonium nitrate to West Fertilizer Inc. which blew up after a huge fire (and totally stumped the ATF as to what caused the explosion for weeks on end even though back in '48 or '49 the Texas City disaster occurred and dwarfed this accident killing hundreds and hundreds when ammonium nitrate being loaded onto ships exploded after heat was introduced by an unrelated intensified fire ultimately caused by a careless cigarette smoking worker). It's clear as hell to us farm boys what caused it (heat introduced to ammonium nitrate), but until some pencil neck in the dozens of government agencies say that's what caused it, we're left waiting on a decision before insurance payouts and settlements begin to rebuild schools and homes.
I have heard that there is kind of a construction boom(unintended pun) in fertilizer manufacturing plants lately here in the US instead of foreign locations as a result of the gas fracking causing plentiful supplies of natural gas which is used in the production process, and is the major cost of it.
Sounds like a big plant, good luck with the bid.
