Norfolk CEO Alan Shaw was a no-show at Thursday night’s town hall meeting in East Palestine, as several citizens yelled at: ‘Where’s Alan?’
East Palestine residents were outraged after Norfolk Sothern’s CEO Alan Shaw was a no-show at the town hall meeting for the second time.
The railroad at the center of the February 3 chemical spill controversy has promised to ‘clean up’ the tracks as early as tomorrow morning, but residents are not happy after the CEO was missing from the meeting and representatives for the company were icy toward concerned citizens.
‘Where’s Alan,’ several yelled toward the end of the town hall meeting on Thursday evening.
The citizens were not given an answer to where the mysterious Shaw was, who has dodged the small Ohio town since the chemical disaster.
This is the second time the CEO, who makes $4.5million, has failed to show up for East Palestine residents, as he did not show up to the meeting two weeks after the derailment.
Several residents took to the stand to reiterate to those involved with the clean-up that their families are unable to return to the town due to becoming ‘violently ill,’ which many experiencing headaches and projectile vomiting.
Now, clean-up workers are falling ill, as well. Workers aiding in the cleanup of toxic materials at a train derailment site are falling ill with migraines and nausea.
The revelation came in the form of a letter from labor leaders to the White House and Ohio’s governor on Wednesday that claimed workers may have been willingly exposed to harmful chemicals at the direction of Norfolk Southern, the company that owns the derailed freighter.
Several residents took to the stand to reiterate to those involved with the clean-up that their families are unable to return to the town due to becoming ‘violently ill,’ which many experiencing headaches and projectile vomiting since the train derailment (pictured)
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Now, clean-up workers are falling ill, as well. Workers aiding in the cleanup of toxic materials at a train derailment site are falling ill with migraines and nausea
Within hours, the letter led to a meeting between the union heads and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in Washington on Wednesday to discuss the February 3 derailment – and its potential repercussions.
Officials confirmed on Thursday that the meeting centered around potential improvements to rail safety, as well as the 40 workers ordered to the clean-up site in East Palestine, Ohio, last month, and their aforementioned symptoms.
Meanwhile, Norfolk Southern continues to face scrutiny over the incident. The company’s CEO, Alan Shaw, is poised to testify before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee next week, amid calls for renewed rail safety regulations.
His company has publicly promised to clean up an estimated 30,000 truckloads of toxic waste wrought by the wreck, while vowing to invest in East Palestine ‘for the long-term.’
Despite the promise to invest in the small town, residents are not happen with Shaw’s attendance record, nor his company’s plan on how to clean up the spill.
A representative for the railroad, Darrell Wilson, said they are ‘ready to start at 6am tomorrow’ to begin removing contaminated soil from underneath their tracks. It is unclear when the operation will begin.
Residents, however, are unhappy, as their farmland and residential areas are still contaminated, they claim.
‘We’re going to clean up the site, we’re going to test,’ Wilson said on Thursday evening. He also claimed that it took so long to be begin clean-up because it took some time to ‘find where [the contamination] is.’
To which residents screamed back: ‘It’s everywhere!’
