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#SpecialReport: #KeystoneState: The birds of East Palestine to East Liverpool to Beaver County are reported silent. Salena Zito..

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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#SpecialReport: #KeystoneState: The birds of East Palestine to East Liverpool to Beaver County are reported silent. Salena Zito..

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0:00.0

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0:02.0

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0:05.0

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0:17.0

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0:20.0

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0:24.0

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0:30.0

This is John Batchner.

0:32.0

My conversation with Selena Zito, my longtime colleague, strikes me as revelatory of the East Palistine spill.

0:41.0

More than a month later, what we're looking at here is unknown risk.

0:46.0

Toxic, atmosphere, toxic water, an attempt to dispose of the soil and the water is not successful at this point as far as the people who live there are concerned.

0:58.0

Not only East Palistine, but East Liverpool, Ohio, where there's a disposable plant, disposal plant that's being used.

1:06.0

Selena talks of the people who are afraid to go to East Palistine, and maybe that will extend to other communities in the area.

1:14.0

I'm particularly taken by what Selena says about the animals and the birds in the area, more than a month after the catastrophe, more than a month after the so-called controlled burn that looked worse than the original spill.

1:29.0

Listen to Selena talk about the animals, the birds, and the whole environment gone quiet.

1:37.0

As of two weeks ago, the Ohio Natural Resource Center said that over 45,000 animals have died because of this spill.

1:51.0

However, you have to wonder if birds are saying, hey, we're not going over there because that air and good or that water's not good or that grass isn't good.

2:04.0

Because there was a bird inside and in Western Pennsylvania, that is just completely unheard of, even in winter, there's cardinals and blue jays.

2:14.0

I'll let a little one on a warm day where you would see sparrows and robins and hawks and eagles. There was nothing. It's so quiet, it's like, it's very eerie.

2:25.0

This is John Bachelor, CBSI in the world.

2:31.0

Day 4 of my exclusively adult virgin voyage. I've come to discover a new version of me.

2:37.0

That prefers relaxing in a hammock. On my own private balcony, staring out at the ocean.

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